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Burnt mound

Bullstown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Bullstown, County Meath, 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
Bullstown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.48875, -6.36501
SMR number
ME045-068----

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gently undulating landscape. A magnetic gradiometer survey (16R0116) of an extensive area (dims c. 600m ENE-WSW; c. 300m NNW-SSE) identified 15 potential archaeological features (Roseveare and Roseveare 2016), 11 of which were archaeologically tested (16E0548). Of these all but two proved to be either natural or of recent origin. An area of high bipolar electro-magnetic signal indicative of severe burning was archaeologically tested at its fringes and the presence of burnt mound material was confirmed. An exclusion zone (dims 35m N-S; 30m E-W) will preserve the monument in situ in the new development. (O’Carroll 2016, 8-9, 13)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 26 February 2021

O’Carroll, Report on Archaeological Test Trenching, Bullstown Townland, Co. Meath. Licence: 16E0548. Unpublished report, CRDS

References

Roseveare, M. J. and Roseveare, A. C. K. 2016 Bullstown Solar Park, Ireland. Geophysical Survey Report. Licence: 16R0156. Unpublished report, Tigergeo.

Nearby in the register

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

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