Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Kilcaskan (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcaskan (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.71412, -9.71109
- SMR number
- CO103-020----
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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
At the base of an earthen field boundary on the E side of a road, on a S-facing slope. A layer (L 9m N-S; H 0.3m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil is exposed along the bottom of the field boundary and is, according to local information, the remains of a much larger mound which was encountered in the course of road widening many years ago. Most of the burnt material was spread on the surface of the road, which is now tarred over.
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 stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.