Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ardgroom Outward, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardgroom Outward
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.73680, -9.86206
- SMR number
- CO102-040004-
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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 rough hill pasture, on the E bank of a stream on the lower N-facing slopes of Tooreennamna Mountain. A roughly D-shaped mound (4.8m N-S; straight S side: L 11.6m E-W; H 1.25m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. On the W sector of the mound are some gorse bushes and loose stones. A standing stone (CO102-040001-) and a boulder-burial (CO102-040002-) are c. 30m to the NW.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.