Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Clondallow, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clondallow
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.13367, -7.94084
- SMR number
- OF030-014----
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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 top of a low natural rise in undulating countryside. Circular earthen mound (H 2m; diam top 6.3m) enclosed by wide flat bottomed fosse (Wth 4.2m; ext. D 1m) which has been altered on all sides. There is no evidence of an external bank which may have been destroyed when the inner fosse was being altered. Known locally as the Deans Fort. Natural mound which may have been used as a burial place.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.