Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Leagard North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leagard North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.85480, -9.39644
- SMR number
- CL030-043----
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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
A mound (Wth c. 15m; H 0.7-0.8m), surrounded by wet marshy ground was noted in 2012, N of an area being monitored in advance of development and may represent a burnt mound or fulacht fia (Fitzpatrick and Rooney 2012, 15; pers. comm. Martin Fitzpatrick, 3 February 2015).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 March 2015
References
Fitzpatrick, M. and Rooney, F. 2012 Report on the archaeological monitoring of a supermarket development in the townland of Leagard North, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. Licence no. 12E036
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.