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Mound

Shanbally (Ballymackey Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Shanbally (Ballymackey Par.), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Shanbally (Ballymackey Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.85823, -8.08685
SMR number
TN021-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a S-facing slope in undulating pasture, 315m NE of Shanbally House. This possible mound is not depicted as an antiquity but as a possible landscape feature or tree-ring on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. A roughly circular, flat-topped mound (base diam. 49.7m N-S; 44.4m E-W; max. H 2.44m) with the top sloping to the NW. The site is defined by a scarp (H 0.64-1.17m) except in the NE quadrant where the slope continues uninterrupted to the exterior. The OS 6-inch map depictions show the site as being tree covered. It is now totally under grass, though depressions along the edge at W and SW mark the former position of trees. Darker, low grass growth along the S side may indicate the presence of a fosse (Wth 1.2m). This mound is located on the demesne lands of Shanbally House and may be a landscape feature associated with the house. Alternatively this may have been a pre-1700 mound which was converted into a landscape feature in the post-1700 period.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 27 January 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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