Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Mountseskin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountseskin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24846, -6.43115
- SMR number
- DU024-018----
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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
Situated on an upper crest of pastureland that falls away steeply to the S. A mound (L 27m; Wth 16m; H 2.5m) surveyed in 1942 by the field survey unit of the Archaeological Society, UCD. There are no upstanding remains visible (Healy 1975, 1-19).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 2018
References
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.