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Mound

Ballyvelaghan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Ballyvelaghan, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyvelaghan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.15336, -9.07653
SMR number
CL003-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a hachured feature at the NE angle of a rectangular field. It is situated on a level landscape. This is a rectangular mound of sand and gravel (dims 21m N-S; 2.2m E-W; H 1.8m) that is known locally to be the remainder of material brought in for the construction of the Villa Marina Constabulary Barracks c. 80m to the N.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 15 April, 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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