Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Hundredacres, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hundredacres
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04637, -7.70731
- SMR number
- OF039-029----
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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
On high ground in mountainous area. Circular mound (top diam. 4m; base diam. 16m; ext. H 3m) with stone revetted cavity on top (possible sunken cist burial). Halfway up the side of the mound there is evidence of an enclosing berm while at the base there is a wide flat bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 2m) with no evidence of an external bank.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.