TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Burnt mound

Castletownsend, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Castletownsend, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castletownsend
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
51.52991, -9.17423
SMR number
CO142-122----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1866 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Discovered as a result of archaeological testing under licence 19E0184 in advance of a proposed sewerage scheme and waste water treatment plant construction at Castletownshend. Adjacent the northern boundary of the Church of St Barrahane and associated graveyard, (CO142-079002-) prehistoric archaeology was exposed in the form of a well preserved burnt mound. It was just below the topsoil and its characteristic mound is still visible in the landscape. The burnt mound measures 23m x 13m and a test pit excavated through the mound indicates that it has a depth of 0.50m. The burnt mound was visible as a deposit of black silty sand which had frequent inclusions of heat affected sandstone fragments.

Compiled by: Yvonne Whitty

Date of upload/revision: 10 March 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Burnt mound in Cork All County Cork records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map