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Habitation site

Blessington Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Habitation site, Blessington Demesne, County Wicklow, 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
Blessington Demesne
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.17346, -6.53591
SMR number
WI005-013----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

A circular mound excavated by Roe (1946, 1-13). This mound (diam. c. 10m; H 0.6m) was surrounded by a shallow ditch (Wth. c. 1m; D 0.25m) and was likely to have been constructed as an 18thC/19thC landscape feature, together with four more which are not described. Earlier material was discovered in the immediate vicinity of the excavated mound - 13/14C pottery, 16th/17C pottery (as well as 18C and 19C material). Listed as a 'cemetery mound' in the SMR (1986) and the RMP (1995) at an erroneous location immediately to the W of 'The Piper's Stones' (WI005-014----). This revised location is the one indicated by Roe (ibid.).

Compiled by: Matt Kelleher

Date of upload: 04 December 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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