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House - fortified house

Mountpleasant, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - fortified house, Mountpleasant, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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