Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Lionsden, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lionsden
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47818, -6.92651
- SMR number
- ME041-022----
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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 the W bank of the S-N Blackwater River and c. 50m from the canalised stream. Archaeological monitoring (02E0194) of topsoil stripping in advance of the development of a gas pipeline identified four spreads of broken and burnt stones in a confined area (dims 7m E-W; 6m N-S; T ). The spreads (BGE: 1A/40/2) were tested and proved to be three shallow spreads and one pit (dims 0.94m x 0.83m; D 0.28m) which may have served as a trough. The burnt mound (ME041-021----) is c. 60m to the N. (Tobin 2003, 30, Fig. 19)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 7 February 2018
References
Tobin, R. 2003 Archaeological Monitoring, Gas Pipeline to the West, Section 1a, Ballough, Co. Dublin to Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath. Licence No. 02E0194. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.