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Mound

Mountrice, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Mountrice, County Kildare, 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
Mountrice
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
The Mount
Coordinates
53.17323, -7.02283
SMR number
KD021-007----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · 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

Prominently sited on a hilltop (OD 310 feet, and formerly the site of an OS Trigonometrical Station) with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. A fairly high, sub-circular, earthen mound (base diams. 22.4m NW-SE; 19.35m NE-SW; upper diams. 4.8m NW-SE; 3.15m NE-SW; max H 4.8m at SW; min H 2.9m at NE) has a concrete water tank built into its upper surface (dims. L 2.15m NE-SW; Wth 1.6m). An earthen ramp (dims. L c. 36m NW-SE; Wth c. 6m) approaching the mound from the NW noted in 1958 (SMR file) and interpreted as not ancient, has since been levelled.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 20 October 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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