Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Derrydarragh Or Oakfield, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrydarragh Or Oakfield
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25368, -8.49031
- SMR number
- SL014-297----
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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
In E half of large field of pasture, located at the interface of lowlying ground, which extends to S and W, and gently rising ground at N. Although currently dry, the lowlying ground is rush-grown, and appears likely to have been relatively wet and boggy in the past.
This burnt mound is visible as a low, grass-covered roughly circular rise (diam. c. 9m; H 0.3-04m at NE, 0.5-0.6m at SW). The mound backs on to gently rising ground at N−NE, and at SW slumps down to an expanse of level lowlying ground. It is composed of gritty, friable stone fragments in a matrix of dark brown/black soil with charcoal inclusions. There is a slight hollow on the NE side, but it is unclear if this represents a trough area or is merely the result of relatively recent disturbance. There is another burnt mound (SL014-296----) 20m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.