Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cootehall, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cootehall
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98334, -8.15603
- SMR number
- RO007-018003-
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
An area of burnt limestone and sandstone was uncovered in archaeological testing (00E0393) on the subsoil in ground preparation for a housing scheme, and it is preserved in situ on a small D-shaped green (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) c. 15m NE of fulacht fia (RO007-018002-) and c. 80m SW of rath (RO006-018----). (Gregory 2002, 292)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 May 2015
References
Gregory, N. 2002 Cootehall: fulacht fiadh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 292, No. 853. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.