Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballard, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballard
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23020, -8.64675
- SMR number
- SL019-211----
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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 in the base of a narrow NE-SW valley, adjacent to the NW side of a NE-SW field drain, with traces of an old stream bed curving around the W side of the mound. One of several fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of c. 1.5km along the flat-bottomed valley. This mound was levelled during land reclamation works in the early 1990's. Remains comprise a roughly circular spread (diam. c. 8m) of shattered sandstone within a charcoal-rich matrix.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.