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Burnt mound

An Dún Mór (TC Na Croisbhealaí), County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, An Dún Mór (TC Na Croisbhealaí), County Donegal, 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
An Dún Mór (TC Na Croisbhealaí)
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.12178, -8.07139
SMR number
DG025-052----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In damp, rush-grown pasture, located in a small stream valley, adjacent to the W bank of the stream which flows NE into the Ray River. A roughly D-shaped mound (16m NE−SW; c. 8m NW−SE; H c. 1m at E, 0.3-0.5m at W) truncated on the straight side to SE by a modern field drain on a NE−SW axis. The field drain (Wth 2m; D 0.8-1m) intersects with the stream just beyond the NNE end of the burnt mound. The top of the mound rises to a height of between 1.6m above the base of the field drain. A small eroded portion of the mound at E reveals a concentration of angular, heat-shattered stones in a matrix of charcoal-rich soil. The mound is grass-covered, with small clumps of gorse on the S and E sides.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 28 April 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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