Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cloontreem, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloontreem
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.66946, -9.89695
- SMR number
- CO115-157----
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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 pasture, on bog, on a SW-facing slope. The remains of an eroded irregular mound (c. 5m NE-SW; c. 3m NW-SE; H 0.1m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil on the NW bank of a stream. Burnt material is also scattered along the bed of the stream for a distance of c. 6m. There is a hut site (CO115-023----) c. 60m to the NE and a standing stone (CO115-156----) c. 80m to the SW.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.