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Burnt mound

Cullagh Beg, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Cullagh Beg, 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
Cullagh Beg
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.33727, -8.49480
SMR number
SL008-215----

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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 pasture, located on the NE bank of a NNW-flowing stream or small river, known locally as the ‘Willsborogh River’. The stream flows in a deep vertical-sided gully (Wth c. 2m; D 1.8m) and appears to have been cannalised/deepened in the past.
This burnt mound, most likely a levelled fulacht fia, consists of a barely discernible, grass-covered D-shaped mound (10-11m N−S; c. 8m E-W; H 0.3m), bordered on the straight SW side by the stream gully. It is composed of a concentration of angular, heat-shattered sandstone fragments in charcoal-rich soil. A telegraph pole stands on the E edge of the mound.

Notified to NMS by the McDaniel family.

Attached images:
SL008-215----_01.JPG Burnt mound, 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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