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
- 53.24334, -6.41835
- SMR number
- DU024-040----
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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 Tallaght Hill at Mountseskin in a forest plantation. A mound identified by Healy (1975a) as being rectangular in shape (L 23m, Wth 11m, H 1.5m). No visible surface trace at this location.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.