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Burnt mound

Parksgrove, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Parksgrove, County Kilkenny, 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
Parksgrove
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.78404, -7.35570
SMR number
KK009-095----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Within the western flood-plain of the River Nore. A burnt mound and a metalworking site (KK009-096----) were revealed during archaeological monitoring of a Bord Gáis Éireann gas pipeline development and excavated in 1999 (Stevens 2000, 150-51; Licence no. 99E0597).
The burnt mound is located 8m N of the metalworking site. The mound (dims. 4m x 2m; D 0.15m) consists of a small spread of charcoal-rich soil, fire-cracked stone (90% sandstone/10% limestone) and silt. It is unclear whether this burnt mound is associated with the adjacent metalworking site or is an unrelated fulacht fia. (Stevens 2000, 150-51). A fulacht fia (KK009-097----) lies c. 190m to the S.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 31 July 2018

References

Stevens, P. 2000 Parksgrove: 1: burnt mound and ironworking site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 150-1 (entry 457). Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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