Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Liscam, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscam
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48423, -8.12311
- SMR number
- RO048-181002-
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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 low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river, c. 110m SW of rath (RO048-007001-). D-shaped scatter of broken and burnt stones in a black matrix (dims 16m NW-SE; 5m NE-SW) visible in a ploughed field, and cut by a WNW-ESE field drain at SW. A portion of the grass-covered mound (dims 10.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW; H 0.6m) survives SW of the field drain. Some flints, including a flint javelin head, had been found nearby. Burnt mound (RO048-181001-) is c. 40m to the NW, and the burnt mound (RO048-181003-) is c. 10m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.