Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Woodpole, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodpole
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74915, -6.97554
- SMR number
- ME010-057----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on an E-facing slope with the NW-SE Blackwater River c. 200m to the E. Archaeological testing (E003641) by S. Rathbone (2007) of about 3 hectares required for the M3 development identified a burnt mound (excavations.ie 2007:1419) together with a pit and a gully which are within c. 30m of it. The mound (diam. c. 8m; T 0.2m) consisted of a spread of broken and burnt stone in a matrix of black clay and appeared in only one trench. About 30m to the S a single pit (diam. 1.1m) was filled with broken and burnt stone, and c. 10m further S a section of an E-W gully (L 10m; Wth 0.3m; D 0.07m) came to light which was also filled with broken and burnt stone. All the features are preserved in situ by being excluded from the works. (Rathbone 2007)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 January 2023
Rathbone, S. 2007 M3 Clonee – North of Kills Motorway Scheme. Proposed Borrow pit at Woodpole. Licence: E003641. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.