Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Glenaraneen, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenaraneen
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24236, -6.45416
- SMR number
- DU024-036----
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Situated within an artificial lake established to provide water for paper mills at Clondalkin. A round-topped mound with cairn material exposed around its perimeter. In the 19th century this site was described as a 'very perfect and remarkable mound nearly suirrounded by a deep boggy slough called Bog Larkin' (Ua Broin 1957, 48).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
References
Ua Broin, L. 1957 The Mountain Commons of Saggart. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 87, 39-52.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.