Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Moher (mohill By., Roosky Ed), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moher (mohill By., Roosky Ed)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83643, -7.91127
- SMR number
- LE037-013001-
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 fairly level landscape. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0983) for a new line of the N4 (O’Connor et al. 2005, 37), and later fully resolved (E003305) as a part of Moher 5. This is a spread of burnt sandstone (dims 3.8m x 3m; max. D 0.08m) in a natural depression, from which a fragment of chert debitage was recovered. Burnt mound (LE035-013002-) is c. 12m to the ESE. (Collins and O’Connor 2008, 13-14; Collins 2009)
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 Unpublished, CRDS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
Collins, A. 2009 Moher 5. Neolithic fulacht fia. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 318, No. 1230. Dublin, Wordwell
Collins, A. and O’Connor, D. J. 2008 N4 Dromod – Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract. Moher 5. Ministerial Direction A 31 (A31-017/E003305) Final Report, Unpublished, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.