Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Killina, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killina
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27301, -7.58458
- SMR number
- OF016-025----
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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
On flat pasture land with good extensive views. Irregular shaped rounded mound (base diam 30m; top diam 15m; H 4m) with no evidence of an enclosing fosse or external bank. There are a lot of loosely piled stones around the base of the mound which is probably a result of field clearance. No evidence of any man made features on this mound. Its irregular shape and varying steepness tends to suggest that this is a natural hill. According to local tradition this is the burial site of a local chieftain and the local landowner will not touch the site as a result. It may have been a natural hill which has been used as a burial site. On first edition of OS 6-inch map site is depicted as a possible landscape feature.
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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.