Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Knocknakilla, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknakilla
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02123, -9.04920
- SMR number
- CO048-182----
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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 newly planted coniferous forest, on a gentle NW-facing slope. A roughly circular mound (c. 7.5m NW-SE; c. 7m NW-SE; H 0.8m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. The mound has not been planted with trees. A second burnt mound (CO048-180----) lies c. 90m to the NW and a third (CO048-181----) lies c. 110m to the SW.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.