Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cam, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cam
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47105, -8.10706
- SMR number
- RO048-190----
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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 low-lying marshy ground. There is local information concerning a spread of broken and burnt stones visible when the field is ploughed, but its precise location is not known. Burnt mound (RO048-191----) is c. 240m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.