Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ballymacwilliam, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacwilliam
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mote
- Coordinates
- 53.35642, -7.12556
- SMR number
- OF011-004----
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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)
- 1811 · 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
Circular steep-sided mound (H 2.9m, Diam at top c. 14m) with wide fosse (max. W. 14m, D. c. 1.50m) around on all but W side where it has been filled in. At the SE of the motte there appeared to be a very large bailey defined by a fosse on one side and a scarp on the other visited 13-06-91 and found to have been levelled.
On small hillock in good pasture land overlooking bog to the N with church (OF011-005001-) nearby. No surface trace visible of levelled mound depicted on OS 6-inch map as a subcircular shaped mound. Local landowner described the site as a circular mound (approx. H 3-4m; diam 30 - 40m) with low berm enclosing the base of the mound. Bulldozed in the mid-1980s, animal bones were found within it, and ash spreads with charcoal were found both within and around the mound. Possible burial mound. Comerford (1883, 324) described the site as a large mound.
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.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.