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Mound

Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Lambay Island, County Dublin, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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