Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Skahanagh North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skahanagh North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02269, -8.32974
- SMR number
- CO053-091003-
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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 tillage, c. 50m S of a stream. A barely perceptible mound (18m E-W; 10m N-S) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil, immediately E of a waterlogged area. Two possible burnt mounds (CO053-091001-, CO053-091002-) lie c. 10m to the NW and c. 20m to the N, respectively.
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.