Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Coan West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coan West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78512, -7.14052
- SMR number
- KK011-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a terrace on the N side of the Dinin river valley, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions. During ploughing a low mound composed of black earth and burnt stone was uncovered. The field has been reclaimed and the mound survives as a slight flat-topped rise.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.