Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Shanakill (decies Without Drum By., Rossduff Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanakill (decies Without Drum By., Rossduff Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18992, -7.37485
- SMR number
- WA015-109----
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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
Excavated (06E0277) as site 7b on the line of a water-pipe for the East Waterford Mains Supply. It is situated on a gentle E-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 160m to the E. A mound of broken and burnt stone (dims. 13m N-S; 9m E-W) was cut by a modern E-W field drain (Wth 3.5m) towards its S end, and it extended outside the excavated area to the W. A trail of burnt stone extended off to the E (L c. 9m) but there was no evidence of a hearth or of troughs. Burnt mound (WA015-110----) is c. 160m to the S. (Wren 2006, 5-6; 2009c)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 17th December, 2010.
References
Wren, J. 2006 East Waterford Supply Scheme. Preliminary report on archaeological investigations at sites 7a and 7b in the townland of Shanakill. Unpublished report DEHLG (06E0277), Headland Archaeology.
Wren, J. 2009c Shanakill Prehistoric burnt mounds. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 531, No. 1998. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.