Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Mountpleasant, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountpleasant
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mountpleasant Ho. in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22123, -7.59863
- SMR number
- OF024-018----
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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
Unlocated house indicated on the Down Survey (1654-7) map (NLI, MS 716). The SMR office has marked the ruins of Mountpleasant House on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map as the possible site for this house that is marked on the 17th century map. No surface remains of any dwelling pre-1700 in area where the ruins of Mountpleasant House is indicated on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Only a few scattered stones protrude from the surface of the ground in the area where Mountpleasant House is indicated on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map.
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 and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 23 June 2016
References
NLI, MS 716 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey, of Offaly attested by W. Petty, in 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 33 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.