Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cornecassa Demesne, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornecassa Demesne
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24909, -6.99671
- SMR number
- MO009-078----
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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 towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (08E0352) identified a large spread of broken and burnt stone (dims c. 12m NW-SE; c. 4.5m NE-SW; T 0.2m). It is preserved in situ. (Duffy 2008, 8, 9; 2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 January 2020
References
Duffy, C. 2011 995. Cornecassa Demesne. Fulacht fia. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 296. Dublin, Wordwell
Duffy, C. 2008 Archaeological Assessment including Test Trenching of a Site at Cornecassa Demesne, County Monaghan. Licence No. 08E0352. Unpublished report, Author
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.