Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
MacKmine, County Wexford, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.