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
- 54.22582, -8.65061
- SMR number
- SL019-244----
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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, on the E of a stream which flows N along the W side of 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. Poorly-defined, low rise (c.5m N-S; c. 4m E-W; H 0.4m on E) covered by heather and gorse shoots. Burnt stones and charcoal fragments were exposed in places where farm stock had eroded the sod (OPW 1994). The full extent of the mound was not determined. As a consequence of land reclamation works in 1995 it was largely obscured by deposits of soil. There is a burnt mound (SL019-243----) c. 40m to N, and a possible burnt mound (SL019-245----) is c. 8m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
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