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Burnt mound

Rossbrien, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Rossbrien, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rossbrien
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.64187, -8.63089
SMR number
LI013-170----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Identified during archaeological monitoring associated with the Limerick Main Drainage Southern Interceptor Scheme. Excavated under licence no. 00E0204 by Paul Stevens (Stevens 2000), the results were summarised as following; ‘The site was revealed as a small oval deposit of fire-cracked sandstone and charcoal-rich silt within a small ovoid hollow, in white and yellow glacial marl. The deposit measured 4.2m in length (south-east/north-west) by 1.8m and 0.15m in maximum depth, 2.659–2.542m OD. Excavation revealed no definitive cut, and the hollow had an irregular profile. No other archaeological features were identified in the surrounding area, although the marshy flood-plain terrain is characteristic of the siting of fulachta fiadh’ (www.excavations.ie; Stevens 2002, 201).

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 26 June 2020

References

Stevens, P. 2000 Archaeological Excavation Rossbrien, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report (Licence No. 00E0204), submitted by Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd. on behalf of Limerick Corporation to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.

Stevens, P. 2002 Rossbrien 1: Burnt mound. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 201 (No. 611). Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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