Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Rathmolyon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmolyon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49352, -6.79602
- SMR number
- ME042-032----
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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 SW-facings slope with a canalised SE-NW stream c. 80m to the SW. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline identified patches of burnt mound material (BGE: 1A/32/1) but it was too ephemeral to excavate. (Tobin 2003)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 March, 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 Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen and Co.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.