Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Crowagh Or Dunneill Mountain, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crowagh Or Dunneill Mountain
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20941, -8.87303
- SMR number
- SL018-097----
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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 on the S bank of a meandering stream, in a small valley, bordered to S by an expanse of blanket bog. It is situated in the NW corner of a pasture field which was reclaimed from the bog. There is a court tomb (SL018-076----) c. 40m to NE. The burnt mound is exposed in section at the junction of the E–W stream gully and a N–S field drain/property fence. It is visible as a layer (L c. 4m E-W; D 0.2m) of black, charcoal-rich soil incorporating small angular stones and charcoal fragments in the S side of the stream gully at a height of c. 1.5m above the stream. At the W end, the layer can be traced extending c. 3-4m to S in the side of a U-shaped cutting through the stream scarp, at the N end of the N–S field drain. A layer of peat (D 0.2-0.3m) overlies the burnt material. The outline of the mound can not be traced at ground surface.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.