Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Curraduff (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraduff (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20487, -9.02429
- SMR number
- CO022-044001-
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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 pasture, on a SE-facing slope. This burnt mound was discovered during archaeological test trenching in advance of the construction of an electricity substation (Ní Loingsigh 2002a). It consists of a subcircular mound (13.5m E-W; 13m N-S) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. Removal of topsoil from the E part of the mound showed that the mound material was darkest in colour towards the centre and that it changed gradually to orange-brown at the edges. The western part of the mound lay outside the development area and was not excavated. A fulacht fia (CO022-044----) lies c. 30m to the SW. (Ní Loingsigh 2003, 40-41).
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.