Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Kilcaskan South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcaskan South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15156, -8.88203
- SMR number
- CO031-159----
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 sloping pasture, c. 100m N of a stream. A barely perceptible roughly oval grass-covered mound (12.4m NNE-SSW; 8.6m ENE-WSW) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. The mound is bisected by a NE-SW forest drain and the burnt material (D 0.08-0.44m) is visible in section in the drain. (pers. comm. Emmet Byrnes)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.