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Mound

Tristernagh Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Tristernagh Demesne, County Westmeath, 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
Tristernagh Demesne
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60301, -7.47572
SMR number
WM011-173----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 small mound or low cairn was annotated on a sketch map in the files of the National Museum archives in the townland of Tristernagh Demesne (pers. comm. Maeve Sikora NMI 28/07/2023). This feature may have been a low cairn or mound which stood on or close to Tristernagh Island on Lough Iron which has since been drained and the land reclaimed. Possible small mound or circular tree-covered feature similar to a crannog is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map Tristernagh Island is shown standing at the S end of Lough Iron, 120m E of the shoreline of Tristernagh Demesne. Tristernagh monastery (WM011-053----) lies 450m to the SW of Tristernagh Island.

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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Maeve Sikora, Keeper of Irish Antiquities,
National Museum of Ireland

Date of upload: 28 July 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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