Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Letter, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letter
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11622, -7.65231
- SMR number
- OF037-009001-
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
Situated on top of high ground in mountainous region with good views in all directions. Site consists of an earthen bank running E-W across the N face of a low hill which may originally have enclosed the hilltop. Possible ring-barrow (OF037-009002-) located inside the earthen bank on top of the hilltop.
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
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.