Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Blessington Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - ornamental lakeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.