Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cloonfad (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfad (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98574, -8.08119
- SMR number
- RO007-101001-
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
On a flat, low-lying landscape immediately E of a N-S drain. A spread of burnt and broken stone (dims 9m E-W; D c. 0.2-0.3m) was uncovered (07E1135) during 2007 in a test trench (Wth 1.8m) and conserved within a re-designed development. Excavated features (RO007-101002-) are c. 60m to the NE. (Read 2007c; 2010a)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2007c Archaeological assessment at Cloonfad Townland, Battlebridge, Co. Roscommon. Licence: 07E1135. Unpublished report: North West Archaeological Services Ltd.
Read, C. 2010a Cloonfad: fulacht fia and cut features. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 410, No. 1487. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.