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
- 53.48421, -8.12273
- SMR number
- RO048-181003-
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 low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river, c. 70m SW of rath (RO048-007001-). Oval scatter of broken and burnt stones (dims 10m x 6m) in a black matrix visible in a ploughed field. Burnt mound (RO048-181002-) is c. 10m to the W, and the burnt mound (RO048-181005-) is c. 90m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.