Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Whigsborough, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whigsborough
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17053, -7.85399
- SMR number
- OF030-005002-
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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 natural rock outcrop on the low-lying floodplains of a nearby river, originally located on a small island known as Castle Island or Lough Coura surrounded by wet marshy land. Little remains of the castle except for a piece of wall fragment and loosely scattered rubble. The building appears to be the remains of a circular tower (OF030-005001-) sitting directly on rock outcrop which along with the collpased rubble gives the appearance of a mound. (Cooke 1875, 238; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 10)
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.