Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Headfort Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Headfort Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mauloleum
- Coordinates
- 53.73202, -6.86448
- SMR number
- ME017-007----
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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)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
Situated on the SW bank of a NW-SE section of the River Blackwater and on the demesne of Headford House. An eight-sided mausoleum is built on top of a mound (diam. of top c. 17m; diam. of base c. 27m E-W; c. 25m N-S; H 1.6-1.8m N-E to 3m S-W) which has a platform (dims c. 12m x 12m; H 0.8m) attached to the E. The platform raises a path to the top of the mound and the door of the mausoleum. The mound was probably built for the mausoleum.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 April, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.