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
- 53.86128, -7.90579
- SMR number
- LE035-045003-
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
Situated on a rise 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 (diam. 5.5-6m) was badly eroded and lay over a number of natural hollows in the subsoil. A sample from one of the hollows produced a C14 date of 3005+-30 (1380-1120 cal. BC) placing it in the Middle Bronze Age. Another burnt spread (dims 3m x 2.5m) nearby was cut by a modern ditch on its W side, but it had no related features. (McGowan and O’Connor 2009, 16)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January 2020
O’Connor, D. J., Marta Muniz Pérez and Sheelagh Conran 2005 N4 Dromod-Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract Licence No. 05E0983 Preliminary Report. Unpublished, CRDS
References
McGowan, L. and O’Connor, D. J. 2009 N4 Dromod – Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract. Clooncolry 1. Ministerial Direction A 31 (A31-007/E003295) Final Report, CRDS
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.