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Mound

Belpatrick, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Belpatrick, County Louth, 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
Belpatrick
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Belpatrick Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Dunmore
Coordinates
53.78961, -6.53178
SMR number
LH020-004002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

At the W end of the interior of Dunmore enclosure (LH020-004001-) is a small mound (H 0.5m), possibly the remains of an OS trigonometrical station.

LH020-004002-_01.jpg: Plan of the enclosed barrow group showing the location of the possible trigonometrical station.

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 12 July 2012

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1998).

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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