Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24405, -6.15432
- SMR number
- DU026-165----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The burnt mound was situated on a SW-facing sloping grassland represented as marshy ground on OS 19th century maps; this land was reclaimed in the late 19th/early 20th century. The site was discovered in the course of archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping in 2003 (License number 03E1370). The remains consisted of a burnt mound (54m N-W x 17m E-W; H 0.1m – 0.3m) comprising loosely compacted black-brown sandy clay with frequent inclusions of charcoal and small heat-cracked stones. The monument was covered over and preserved in situ. A second burnt mound/fulacht fia (DU026-164----) was discovered c. 95m to the SE (pers. comm. Melanie McQuade, 26 November 2014).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 28 November 2014
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.