Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Clooncolry, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncolry
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86134, -7.90549
- SMR number
- LE035-045002-
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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 on an E-facing slope overlooking a bog. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0983) for a new line of the N4 (O’Connor et al. 2005, 27), and later fully resolved (E003295) as a part of Clooncolry 1. An area of burnt and broken stone (dims 6m x 5.5m; T 0.05-0.18m) had been truncated by later drains on almost every side and may have been a redeposit. It overlay an oval trough (dims 1.5m x 1.2m; D 0.08-0.24m) filled with a sandy layer over a more stoney one which produced a C14 date of 3765+-39 (2300-2030 cal. BC). (McGowan and O’Connor 2009, 15)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.