Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Derrycreeveen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycreeveen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63659, -9.89423
- SMR number
- CO128-027002-
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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 reclaimed pasture, on the E bank of a stream on Bear Island. A spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil is evident on the grass-covered surface of a roughly D-shaped area (6m E-W; straight W side; L 10m N-S). A fulacht fia (CO128-027001-) lies c. 65m to the NE.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.