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Burnt spread

Lisnalurg, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt spread, Lisnalurg, 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
Lisnalurg
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.29235, -8.47385
SMR number
SL014-016002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Human bones were discovered in 1969 in the course of the widening of the Sligo – Bundoran road and the site was inspected by a member of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI file) who recorded that ‘12 metres from the apparent edge of the cemetery [SL014-016001-] a large approx. saucer-shaped deposit of burnt clay and stones and flecks of charcoal was visible at approx. the same level as the cemetery. The visible portion of this deposit measured 4 metres across and its bottom was 60cm below the road surface; it consisted of layers of burnt stones, patches of charcoal, layers of ash etc. and was apparently either a hearth or an ash pit. No artifacts were noted.’ The location of this monument is that recorded in the NMI file.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 January 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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