Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Killurin, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killurin
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21633, -7.55367
- SMR number
- OF024-025----
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
Post 1700 landscape feature known as a Ha Ha the encloses the front of Killurin House, however in the second field to the S of Killurin House there is a possible enclosure depicted on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. Not indicated on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map. Mistakenly identified as the ha-ha around Killurin House and marked as such on the current edition of the 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.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.