Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballymorisheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymorisheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.01029, -8.64037
- SMR number
- CO051-183----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A burnt mound consisting of heat shattered stone and charcoal rich soil was discovered during test excavation c.8m from the western edge of a field of semi-improved pasture. A roughly circular mound c 0.1m in height measured 15.5m E-W and 11.5m N-S survived beneath a thin layer of topsoil. It lies c 50m to the southwest of a previously recorded fulacht fiadh (CO051-083----).
Compiled by: Tony Miller
Date of upload/revision: 3 March 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.