Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Keelty (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelty (athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39760, -7.99308
- SMR number
- RO052-030----
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 gently undulating landscape. A circular spread of grey silty clay with some broken and burnt stones (diam. 3.5m N-S; 3.3m E-W) was recorded (02E1042) in the course of laying a gas pipeline during 2002. (Quinn 2004b; Grogan et al. 2007, 332, No. 1611)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Quinn, B. 2004b Keelty: burnt spread. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 455, No. 1611. Dublin. Wordwell.
Grogan, E., O'Donnell, L. and Johnston, P. 2007 The Bronze Age landscapes of the pipeline to the West. Bray. Wordwell.
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