Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Lisnarawer, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnarawer
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23335, -8.64063
- SMR number
- SL019-209----
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
Situated towards the NNE end of a narrow, flat-bottomed valley, aligned NNE-SSW, within which numerous fulachtaí fiadh occur over a distance of c. 1.5km. Glimpses of burnt stone and charcoal occurs for a length of c. 12m on the E side of a NNE-SSW field drain which extends along the valley floor. In addition some mound material occurs in a low sod-covered bank of upcast which borders the drain.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.