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Mound

Cavan (Mohill By.), County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Cavan, County Leitrim, 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
Cavan (Mohill By.)
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.93563, -7.91787
SMR number
LE032-113----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

Reported (5-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. On the crest of a low, N-S pasture ridge c.90m E of the S-flowing Eslin River. Not recorded by the OS. A low (H 0.7m) grass-covered circular area (diam. 12m) is defined by large stones. The landowner recalled that, in snow, a straight line is visible extending NE from the monument.

An entry in the Schools Manuscripts Collection (Vol. 0215, p. 244) records: ‘In the town-land of Cavan there is a mound or a Cairn and it is believed that there are either treasures or urn's containing human remains buried there.’

See attached images: LE032-113----_1 Snip from digitalglobe aerial imagery (scale: 1:1000, accessed 15-9-2022) and LE032-113----_2 View from S along the E edge of monument on 10/08/2021.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 3 November 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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