Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Carrickavoher, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickavoher
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95177, -7.73900
- SMR number
- LE033-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. A buried layer of burnt mound material (dims 12.1m NE-SW; 10.2m NW-SE; T 0.3m plus) was cut by a trench in a forestry planting operation, and recorded by Emmet Byrnes.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.