Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Kilkeelan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkeelan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64584, -6.93739
- SMR number
- ME023-017----
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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 a hillock in an undulating low-lying landscape. It is not depicted on any map but a circular wood is depicted as occupying the hill on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map while a crescent-shaped wood lies around it SW-N-SE on the 1912 edition. This is a circular grass-covered mound (diam. of base c. 30m; H 1.8m at S to 3m at N) with some trees. The wood is bordered by a bank and outer ditch, and a N-S field bank with ditches on either side runs over the mound.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 27 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.