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Burnt mound

Ardnaglass Lower, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Ardnaglass Lower, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ardnaglass Lower
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.38746, -8.50930
SMR number
SL005-200----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the NW corner of a pasture field, located in damp, level rush-grown ground, bordered to E by a low natural rise.
This burnt mound, probably a levelled fulacht fia, is not visible at ground surface level, but is exposed in section in two intersecting field field drains. A dense layer (L 15m; D 0.23-0.3m) of burnt stones in black, charcoal-rich soil is exposed in section in both the E and W sides of a roughly N−S field drain (Wth 1.2m at top, 0.6m base; D 0.4-0.5m), which cuts through the wet NW corner of the field. The burnt layer is directly overlain by topsoil/sod (D 0.15-0.2m), and overlies a peat layer. The drain intersects at its N end with an E−W field drain on the N boundary of the field. The burnt stone layer is also visible in the E−W drain, extending to E for c. 5m from the point of intersection with the N−S drain.

Attached image: SL005-200----_01.JPG Burnt stone visible in drain section, viewed from SE.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 9 October 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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