Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt pit
Monadreela, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monadreela
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53149, -7.86001
- SMR number
- TS061-158----
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
Uncovered during archaeological excavation of the N8 Cashel bypass. Decribed by the excavator as an irregular shaped feature (Wth 1m; L 1.06m; D 0.07m) filled with charcoal flecks and small burnt stone inclusions and interpreted as a 'Modern burnt mound' (O'Flanagan 2003, 3-6). A similar feature (TS061-157----) was uncovered close by (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, N. 2003 N8 Cashel Bypass & N74 Link Road: phase 2 archaeological investigations. Site No. 4. Licence No. 03E0298. Unpublished archaeological excavation report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.