Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cloonerkaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonerkaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66885, -8.71488
- SMR number
- RO032-069----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a W-facing slope close to the summit of the ENE-WSW Slieve Dart ridge. An area of broken and burnt stone (diam. c. 5m) visible in a field after reclaimation. An oak timber (L 8.5m; Wth c. 1m) with a narrow channel (Wth c. 0.2m; D c. 0.2m) cut in one surface was found c. 50m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.