Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Merginstown Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Merginstown Demesne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04585, -6.64567
- SMR number
- WI015-041----
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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 a gentle S-facing slope with a stream valley to the SW. At least two cists and possibly other graves were found in a mound (diam. c. 19m). Three bowls and a plain vessel are preserved in the NMI. Not visible at ground level. (Price and Walshe 1933, 59; Waddell 1990, 165-6)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut site1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.