Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Muckalee, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckalee
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76280, -7.18910
- SMR number
- KK011-033----
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 relatively level terrain, in gently sloping grassland between the Douglas and Dinin river valleys. One of three burnt mounds (KK011-031----; KK011-032----) c. 200m to the SW and c. 250m to SSW respectively, near a spring. An area of black earth and small burnt stones was noted during ploughing. Visible in 1987 as a very slight rise.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 February 2019
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