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
- 51.73568, -9.85769
- SMR number
- CO102-041013-
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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 W bank of a river on the lower N-facing slopes of Tooreennamna Mountain. An eroded irregular mound (4.4m N-S; 2.8m E-W; H 0.7m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. Two boulders abut the W side of the mound. Another burnt mound (CO102-041007-) lies 6m to the E and there is a standing stone (CO102-041008-) c. 50m to the SE.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.