Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lambay Island
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49075, -6.01657
- SMR number
- DU009-001015-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavations between 1997 and 2001 on a site termed the Eagle's Nest in the eastern valley on Lambay Island revealed a deliberately created low mound. This monument comprises a series of pits which were covered by stones and layers of sediment incorporating stone settings. A hoard with an Orcadian type macehead was found in the make-up (Cooney 2003, 126-128).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Cooney, G. 2003a Lambay Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 126-8. Bray. Wordwell.
Cooney, G. 2003b The Point, Lambay Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 170-71. Bray. Wordwell.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.