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Burnt mound

Knockaderry Lower, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Knockaderry Lower, 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
Knockaderry Lower
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.21498, -7.28610
SMR number
WA016-031003-

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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)
  • 1869 · 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in pasture, in a broad hollow opening out to the E. Archaeological testing (02E1445) at the site of an electricity pylon uncovered evidence of a burnt mound, (Lane 2004).

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload/revision: 20th December, 2010.

References

Lane, S. 2004 Knockaderry Lower/Johnstown. Fulacht fia. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 492, No. 1796. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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