Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Killeen West, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen West
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82330, -8.21415
- SMR number
- RO022-149----
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
Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low-lying level landscape. Subrectangular grass-covered and flat-topped mound (dims of base 12m NW-SE; 10m NE-SW; dims of top 8m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW) defined by scarps (H 0.3m NW-NE to 0.8-1.1m SE-SW). Immediately to the SW is a fragment of a NW-SE relict field bank (Wth 3.3m; H 0.3-0.4m; L 12m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.