Mound in Burgage More, County Wicklow

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Situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Described in 1838 OS Field Name Books as a 'pile of earth', and indicated on the OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1838) as a small unnamed mound (diam. c. 20m) with the symbol for a trigonometrial station on the top (684 feet OD). This mound is not shown on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1907) and was probably removed by this date. This may be the feature referred to in the Book of Burgage Parish (Vol. 1, 244) as 'Burgagemore Moat'. The site of this mound was tested in 1996 for archaeological remains and 'No evidence of a monument or of any archaeological feature was discovered.' (Duffy 1996). Although there is every reason to consider that this mound may have been artificially constructed the results of the investigations in 1996 indicate that all trace of it had been removed, both above and below ground surface. (Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, 105, no. 718; Duffy 1997) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 24 January 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI005-046

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