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Burnt mound

Graiguearush, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Graiguearush, County Waterford, 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
Graiguearush
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.22046, -7.49381
SMR number
WA015-118----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the lower end of a gradually sloping field at the foothills of the Comeragh Mountains. Formerly in wet pasture, with rushes and some rock outcrop. It is currently within a forest plantation. There are two other burnt mounds (WA015-119----; WA015-115----) c. 144m to the WSW and c. 213m to the SW respectively. A very low mound (dims. c. 10m N-S; 13m E-W; min. H 0.3m) identified in section in an E-W forestry drain and visible above ground as a very subtle mound. It is composed of fire-cracked stones and charcoal-rich soil beneath the sod.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 12 April 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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