Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ballykilleen (kilcoursey By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykilleen (kilcoursey By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38241, -7.61063
- SMR number
- OF002-020----
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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
Site of a natural mound which appears to be of no archaeological significance. Described in 1977 as, 'A natural mound?, This is a low rounded mound. The roadway cuts away part of the mound on the eastern side. The southern end of the mound has been scarped and a number of bushes growing along the perimeter. This does not resemble an antiquity and it appears to be a natural mound', (ASI file 1977). Depicted on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map not as an antiquity, but as an irregular shaped earthwork or enclosure intersected by a field boundary on the W side running NW-SE. Depicted as a small natural hillock defined by a 200 ft contour line on the revised 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Of doubtful antiquity.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 19 December 2011
Nearby in the register
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