Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cargagh (upper Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cargagh (upper Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94923, -7.25339
- SMR number
- CV026-068001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the bottom of a steep E-facing slope. Archaeological testing (22E0863) by T. McHugh of an area selected for soil storage identified three burnt mounds in a relatively small area of c. 1.25 hectares https://excavations.ie/report/2022/Cavan/0031892/ This feature (site 3) is a spread of charcoal-enriched soil and heat-affected stones (dims 3.4m E-W; 2.4m N-S). The burnt mounds (CV026-068002-) and (CV026-068003-) are c. 20m to the SSW. All the features will be preserved in situ beneath a geotextile layer and introduced soil. (McHugh 2022, 23, 24)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 January 2023
McHugh, T. 2022 Archaeological testing for a proposed development at Cargagh, Co. Cavan. Licence: 22E0863. Unpublished report, Fadó Archaeology
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.