Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Ballybritt, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybritt
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.00266, -7.78971
- SMR number
- OF043-004----
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 a low natural hillock in undulating countryside. Roughly circular flat topped mound (diam. 15.5m E-W; 18.8m N-S; H 1.5m) defined by a scarp with external fosse visible at E only. Large boulders along S perimeter of site probably field clearance debris. The site is the result of the scarping of a natural hillock to produce a flat topped mound.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.