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Burnt mound

Maddockstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Maddockstown, 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
Maddockstown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.63303, -7.16242
SMR number
KK020-052----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In tillage. Identified during fieldwalking in advance of the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (Sleeman 1983, 365-6). Described as a, 'large area (11m x 6m) of black soil and shattered sandstone fragments. The area was generally horse-shoe shaped in plan. The site was probably a fulacht fiadh' (ibid.).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 December 2020

References

Sleeman, M. 1983 Sites identified during the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline. In The Archaeology of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline report 1983, 360-72.

Nearby in the register

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

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