Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballard,Lisnarawer, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballard,Lisnarawer
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23065, -8.64582
- SMR number
- SL019-210001-
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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 wet pasture, located on the floor of a narrow NE-SW valley. One of a series of fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of c. 1.5km along the flat-bottomed valley. This burnt mound comprises a low, D-shaped mound (c. 11m NE-SW; c. 9.6m NW-SE; H 0.85m at SE) whose straight side, at NW, is formed by a NE-SW drain which bisects the monument. On the opposite side of the drain is a low bank of upcast burnt mound material and beyond this is a surface spread (10m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) of shattered sandstone and charcoal. A second burnt mound (SL019-210002-) occurs 10m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.