Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Erris, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Erris
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97782, -8.27438
- SMR number
- RO006-033002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope and just NW of rath (RO006-033001-). Evidence of a buried burnt feature was recovered beside a spring in a trial cutting connected with the Boyle by-pass road (Ó'Ríordáin 1990b; Channing 1994a, 69-70).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Ó Ríordáin, B. 1990b 'Templenadriney', Erris Church (site of); burial ground; habitation. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1989: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 45, No. 81. Bray. Wordwell.
Channing, J. 1994b Erris, adjacent to other sites. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1993: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 69-70, No. 194. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.