Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Gortlustia, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortlustia
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76526, -8.04445
- SMR number
- RO029-149----
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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 gentle W-facing slope. A pit (dims 1.55m x 1.2m; max. D 0.45m) filled with burnt and broken stones and silt, was uncovered and excavated (01E0906) during monitoring for roadworks. The outline of a larger spread of burnt stones (dims 7m N-S; 4m E-W) was also traced. (O' Neill 2003)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Neill, J. 2003 Gortlustia. Burnt mound/fulacht fia. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summmary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 355, No. 1120. Bray. Wordwell.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.