Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Bawnard West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnard West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87732, -8.17247
- SMR number
- CO076-126----
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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, on level ground, near the top of a hill. A roughly oval mound (18m E-W; 9m N-S; H 0.4m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil, on the S side of a field boundary. A spring well, which was indicated on the 1934 OS 6-inch map on the N side of the field boundary, appears to have been drained. The ground adjacent to the burnt mound to the E, S and W becomes waterlogged in winter and is being covered with rubble.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.