Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Graiguearush, County Waterford, Ireland
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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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
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.