Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt pit
Killeisk, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeisk
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86671, -8.08212
- SMR number
- TN021-107002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
To the NE of the start (or end) of the droveway is a group of pits over an area 10m x
7.5m. Many of the pits contained 'burnt stone and charcoal' style fills. No reports of
slag but this would be a good area for burnt stone activities - perhaps an EM style
Burnt Mound for cattle processing as at Balriggan, Dundalk. Perhaps external
'campsite' activities associated with drovers. However, this could also be the remains
of a Bronze Age burnt mound.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.