Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cregg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.30197, -8.51721
- SMR number
- SL008-221----
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
Located 125m N of the N shore line of Sligo Bay, beneath the surface of a road (R291) bordered by modern housing. This burnt mound was discovered in June 2022 during archaeological monitoring (licence 22E0373) in advance of a Rosses Point/Ballincar Sewerage Scheme. It was exposed in the section face of a trial trench. It consists of a deposit of heat-cracked stones in a charcoal-enriched matrix (D 0.4m) located at a depth of 1.2m below the surface of the road; it is overlain by existing road fill.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.