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Burnt mound

Ballard,lisnarawer, County Sligo, Ireland

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Townland
Ballard,lisnarawer
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.23056, -8.64597
SMR number
SL019-210002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In wet pasture, located on the floor of a narrow NE-SW valley. One of several fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of c. 1.5km along the flat-bottomed valley. A low, D-shaped mound (13m NE-SW; 7.7m NW-SE; H 0.8m) with the straight side at NW formed by a NE-SW field drain. In the drain section the layer of burnt stone and charcoal has a depth of 1.3m. A second burnt mound (SL019-210001-) occurs 10m to NE.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 12 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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