Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Carrowgilpatrick, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgilpatrick
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22692, -8.65010
- SMR number
- SL019-213----
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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
In wet pasture, located on the W side of stream, which flows N along the W side of a in a flat-bottomed valley. One of several fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of 1.5km along the base of the valley. Remains comprise a semi-circular area (c. 16m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) of firm ground surrounded by soft, wet ground. It is truncated on the straight side, at E, by a NW-SE drain. A layer (D 0.8m) of burnt stone and charcoal is visible in section in the drain. A rivulet flowing from the slope at W cuts the S edge of the mound. There is a burnt mound (SL019-238----) c. 25m to SSE, and a possible burnt mound (SL019-239----) is c. 20m to SSW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.