Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Ballycorick, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycorick
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74248, -9.06653
- SMR number
- CL050-074----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a level area in the angle of a stream, at the foot of a steep NW-facing slope, in rough pasture. A small oval burnt spread (max. L 3.6m) uncovered in a drain during groundworks for a small forestry plantation. The spread was well defined and contained abundant heat-shattered stone in a matrix of charcoal-rich soil. Due to the small size of the spread, it is likely to have been for a single use and may represent a pot boiler. The spread has been preserved in situ within a 15m exclusion zone. Two burnt spreads (CL050-070001- and CL050-070002-) and two burnt pits (CL050-070003- and CL050-070004-) were excavated in an area 50-150m to the E and NE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney with information from Alison McQueen
Date of upload: 24 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.