Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Dromavane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromavane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.74804, -8.88781
- SMR number
- CO109-093----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pasture, on a NW-facing slope. A large spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was discovered during topsoil stripping in advance of the construction of the Ballincollig-Ballineen gas pipeline in 2000. The spread appears to have been dragged over the area by ploughing. A test-trench (Wth 1.2m; L 25m E-W) which was excavated across the spread showed it to be barely 0.05m in depth. The spread was limited to two patches along the length of the trench. A subcircular area (diam. 1.81m; D 0.4m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was also noted to the W of the test-trench. The excavator concluded, based on local information, that the main concentration of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil lies to the N of the pipeline corridor, outside the excavated area. (Tobin 2001; 2002g, 47)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.