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Mound

Ballythomas, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Ballythomas, County Wexford, 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
Ballythomas
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.76593, -6.36223
SMR number
WX002-010----

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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)
  • 1811 · 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

Marked only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map immediately N of a NW-SE road. It is situated just N of the col of the Wicklow Gap separing Co. Wexford from the Derry Water, Aughrim and Avoka river systems, and Co. Wicklow. There is higher ground to the NE and SW and the ground slopes away steeply to the N and NW.
This is a flat-topped, grass and scrub-covered earthen mound (diam. of base c. 15m; diam. of top 7m; H 5m) with a trail of material extending off to the SE (L c. 10m; H 1-2m) adjacent to the road that was built since the 1839 ed. of the map. Despite the strategic location it may be a spoil mound.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 27 January 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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