Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Annagh North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30466, -8.73477
- SMR number
- CO007-174----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a flat marshy area largely covered with rushes. A low, roughly circular, grass-covered mound (10m SW-NE; 9m SE-NW; H 0.45m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. The upper surface is uneven and heat-shattered stones are visible intermittently along its perimeter, especially along its eroded W side. There is a stream to the W.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.