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Burnt mound

Cargagh (Upper Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Cargagh, County Cavan, 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
Cargagh (Upper Loughtee By.)
County
Cavan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.94899, -7.25357
SMR number
CV026-068002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 2) is a spread of charcoal-enriched soil and heat-affected stones (dims 3.3m N-S; 2.2m E-W) that extended outside the exposed area to the S. Burnt mound (CV026-068003-) is 5m to the NE. All the features will be preserved in situ beneath a geotextile layer and introduced soil. (McHugh 2022, 21, 22)

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 Unpublished report, Fadó Archaeology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

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

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