Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Fetherneen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fetherneen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14168, -8.60145
- SMR number
- SL025-165002-
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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
On the E bank of a stream. A thin layer (L c. 8m; T 0.015m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil is visible in section in the stream bank at a depth of 0.2m below the sod. The burnt material overlies a layer of cream-coloured clay. There is a second burnt spread (SL025-165003-) c. 20m to S and a fulacht fia (SL025-165001-) c. 30m to NNW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.