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Burnt mound

Cloghvally Lower, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Cloghvally Lower, County Monaghan, 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
Cloghvally Lower
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.98944, -6.71683
SMR number
MO031-136----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 03E1255) and situated on the S bank of a small meandering stream at a point where it changes from a SW-NE to NW-SE flow. The excavation of burnt mound material (dims 9. 5m x 6.25m; max. T 0.4m) revealed no other features which would have been eroded by the stream. It did provide a calibrated C14 date of 1877-1537 Cal. BC. (Walsh 2007; Walsh 2011, 518)

Date of revised upload: 27 July 2017

References

Walsh, F. 2011 A tale of two townlands (Part I) Clogher Record, vol. 20, No. 3, 500-20.

Walsh, F. 2007, CLOGHVALLY UPPER 2, CLOGHVALLY UPPER Burnt mound. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 354 (No. 1364). Bray. Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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