Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Eadestown North, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eadestown North
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97503, -6.64668
- SMR number
- WI021-091----
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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
Discovered in the course of a DAFM archaeological field inspection in advance of a proposed afforestation project. A possible archaeological monument – a circular feature - had been identified at the location on DigitalGlobe/Bing aerial imagery (2012). Situated on a slight terrace in a steep, W-facing, pasture slope in the SW-corner of a field with mature hedge-rowed boundaries c. 9m to the W and c. 10m to the S.
A low (av. H 1.7m) grass-covered, circular (base diam. c. 20m N-S) mound is steep-sided and round-topped (surface diam. c. 5m). The break of slope at the base is sharp whilst the break of slope at the top is gentle.
Significant prehistoric activity is recorded in this general area: a Linkardstown Burial (WI021-057----) c. 155m to the NW and three Cists (WI021-087----, WI021-088---- and WI021-089----) c. 530m to the N and NW. Consequently, this mound is likely to be prehistoric as well, and possibly containing a Neolithic Linkardstown Burial?
See attached images:
• WI021-091----_1 Mound viewed from W. Séamus Ó Murchú
• WI021-091----_2 Mound viewed from N. Séamus Ó Murchú
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 14-November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Linkardstown burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.