Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Afaddy Or Silverspring, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Afaddy Or Silverspring
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31875, -7.26017
- SMR number
- KK042-055----
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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
In a flat valley at the base of a NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge, running down to a stream. There is a spring 14m to the SE and another one 18m to the S. One of five burnt spreads (KK042-054----; KK042-055----; KK042-056----; KK042-057----; KK042-058----) identified along this valley floor. A slightly raised mound (dims. 17m; H 0.7m) of burnt material consisting of fire-cracked stones and charcoal in a black soil matrix (min. D 0.25m).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.