Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05205, -9.05672
- SMR number
- CL006-219----
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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
In a natural hollow at the S end of the Termon plateau and within a field system (CL006-217----) extending all over the plateau. A burnt mount noted by Keegan (2016, 103-4) although referred to as a fulacht fia. Keegan cites an ITM of 529316, 701203 but her diagram combined with OSi Aerial Premium orthophotos confirm an ITM of 529154, 700678. Described as 'a scattered mound of sandstone and limestone...burnt sandstones are present throughout'.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
References
Keegan, D.M. 2016 The Chalcolithic - Early Bronze Age farming community of Termon: a landscape survey. Unpublished MA Thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.