Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilnalacka, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnalacka
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04876, -7.92385
- SMR number
- OF038-003----
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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
No surface remains visible, levelled monument was situated on a flat pastureland to the E of rathbeg bog. Depicted as a large circular enclosure or platform on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Depicted not as an antiquity but as a roughly oval-shaped grove of trees on the 1908 ed. OS 25-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/revision: 30 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.