Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Lisselty, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisselty
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15077, -7.08607
- SMR number
- WA027-025007-
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
Located in a low cliff-face on the NW-facing foreshore on the E side of Tramore Bay. This is a black layer (L c. 2m; T 0.07-0.1m) with cockle shells and some oyster shells, but with no obvious charcoal lumps. The feature is c. 1.6m over the beach in the sand overlying the glacial till.
See attached photograph:
WA027-025007-_01 General view from the W
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
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- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.