Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Mullaghakaraun, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghakaraun
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19687, -7.96109
- SMR number
- OF021-001002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the N facing slope of high ground in undulating countryside. Large trivallate ringfort (OF021-001001-), in the northern sector of the interior are the grass covered wall footings of a possible hut site (16m N-S; 17m E-W) square in shape with possible dividing cross wall.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.