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Mound

Ballynure Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Ballynure 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
Ballynure Demesne
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.00843, -6.76155
SMR number
WI020-004----

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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)
  • 1799 · 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

An oval mound (c. 53m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW), much quarried out, leaving high ‘banks’ at N, W and S. There is a slight external fosse with a flat base at N and W. Referred to in the OS Name Book (Ballynure parish (1838-40), book 132, 42) as ‘Dhoone Moat’.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 8 November 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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