Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Abbey West,dooneen (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey West,dooneen (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12707, -9.06005
- SMR number
- CL003-028003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle S-facing slope of rough grazing and outcropping rock from which numerous small spring wells emerge. A low triangular-shaped mound of grass-covered burnt stone (max. L 2–9m N–S; max. Wth 2.4m E–W; H 0.6m). It is very slightly concave at its wider S end. A fulacht fia (CL003-028001-) lies 11m to the E and a burnt mound (CL003-028004-) is 15m NE. Another fulacht fia (CL003-028002-) lies c. 60m NNE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 15 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.