Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Longford Demesne, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longford Demesne
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21649, -8.67850
- SMR number
- SL019-233----
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 in a tract of wet, level pasture traversed by modern drains. A low rise (c. 8m E-W; c. 10m N-S; H 0.4m at E) distinguished from the surrounding damp, rush-grown pasture, by a covering of moss. Probing revealed a stony makeup in dark grey soil. A rath (SL019-088) is located c. 30m to N, and a fulacht fia (SL019-234) c. 100m to SSW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.