Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballyfaudeen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfaudeen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96077, -9.34892
- SMR number
- CL015-146----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slightly raised area in lowlying wet grassland. A burnt mound identified during excavation of drains for forest development was reported to the National Monuments Service by the Forest Service in March 2017. It comprised blackish charcoal-rich soil with frequent inclusions of burnt stone. The extent of the mound could not be precisely determined (c. 4m E-W; c. 2.5m N-S). The drain cutting through the mound was backfilled at the time of inspection. An exclusion zone around it was left unplanted.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.