Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cullagh Beg, County Sligo, Ireland
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----
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 1869 "Ireland." (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.