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Mound

MacKmine, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, MacKmine, 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
MacKmine
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.43802, -6.59376
SMR number
WX031-012----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked as a small mound only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in the valley of a small W-E stream on a steep E-facing slope, with the stream immediately to the S. It is described as an earthen mound ’20 feet by 18 feet and about 2 feet high’ (dims. c. 6m; H c. 0.6m) known as ‘Mullaun a plaugh’ that was thought locally to be a burial place of plague victims (Sheil 1921, 116). It was removed in 1978 when no human remains were recorded (Wexford People, 09-06-1978; 16-06-1978), and it may have been a fulacht fia.

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: 28 August, 2012

References

Sheil, Rev. P. 1920 Parish of Bree. The Past 1, 113-19.

Nearby in the register

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

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