Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Trascan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trascan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16150, -7.13628
- SMR number
- OF034-004----
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Shown on 5 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 low-lying poorly drained floodplains of nearby river. Low elongated mound of alluvial silt with no evidence of any enclosing bank or fosse. Not marked on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Hachured as an oval shaped mound or platform on the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map. This earthwork may have formed as the result of floodings over the years. Doubtful antiquity.
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/revision: 30 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.