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Mound

Bellewstown (Moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Bellewstown, County Meath, 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
Bellewstown (Moyfenrath Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53756, -6.86234
SMR number
ME036-034----

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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)
  • 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 top of a prominent hillock, it is not depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map but it was within a wood at that time. It was described in 1969 (SMR file) as a low, subrectangular and flat-topped mound (dims of top c. 4.5m E-W; c. 4-5m N-S) defined by scarps (at E: Wth 1.6m; H 1.1m) which had been quarried into at N, E and W. A rescue excavation (99E0520) of the SW quadrant revealed that the mound was composed of an orange sandy clay (H 0.8m) with a collection of stones at one point. However, no artefacts or any evidence of burials or any other function was recovered, although other features were in the vicinity (Murphy 1999, P8; 2000, 232).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 5 July, 2019

References

Murphy, D. 1999 Report on an Archaeological Rescue Excavation and an Assessment of a Recorded Monument at Bellewstown, Trim, Co. Meath. Licence No. 99E0520. Unpublished report, Author

Murphy, D. 2000 Bellewstown: Mound, possible ring-ditch or barrow. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 232-3, No. 677. Bray, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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