Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Mountwolseley Or Crosslow, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountwolseley Or Crosslow
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mount Aaron
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mount Aaron
- Coordinates
- 52.79210, -6.72663
- SMR number
- CW008-047----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted on the 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as a circular enclosure and named 'Mount Aaron'. On a large hillock of glacial origin. Noted by O' Donovan (OS letters 1839) as having the appearance of an 'artificial fort or moat, but it seems to be a natural hillock, as a limestone quarry was found in the middle of it' (O' Flanagan 1934). When inspected by ASI in July 1987 it was described as a 'large overgrown oval hillock' and more recent quarrying had taken place on the N side but there was no indication in this exposed face of it being an artificial structure.
Reference:
O' Flanagan Ed. 1934 Letters containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Carlow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.