Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Lisnalurg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnalurg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.29235, -8.47385
- SMR number
- SL014-016002-
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
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.