Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Shannon Eighter, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shannon Eighter
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28771, -8.47729
- SMR number
- SL014-304----
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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 the NE corner of a pasture field, on the margins of damp, lowlying terrain bordering the inner reaches of Sligo Bay.
This burnt mound was discovered in June 2022 during archaeological monitoring (Licence no. 22E0373) of topsoil stripping on the pipeline way-leave of the Rosses Point/Ballincar Sewerage Scheme. It consists of a deposit (3m N-S; 2m E-W) of heat-cracked stones in a charcoal-enriched matrix located at a depth of 0.3m below the topsoil.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.