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Burnt mound

Ballinafad, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Ballinafad, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinafad
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.02637, -8.33735
SMR number
SL040-237----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Discovered during the construction of the Curlew bypass and excavated in 1995 (Channing 1998a, 154). Two peat-covered spreads of heat-shattered stones and charcoal were found on the edge of wet ground close to Lough Arrow. The main spread (c. 11.5m x 10m) contained two roughly circular unlined troughs, 1.1m apart, cut into the subsoil. The N trough (1.95m E-W; 1.95m N-S; D 0.5m) was roughly circular in plan with straight cut sides. The S trough (1.92m N-S; 1.5m E-W; D 0.25m) was more oval in plan. The second spread (c. 5.5m x c. 2m) of burnt stones and charcoal lay c. 5m to E. The area between the two spreads had been truncated by machinery during the road construction and the excavator implies that both spreads were part of the one monument. (Channing 1995, 1-8)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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