Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Coolboy (arklow By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolboy (arklow By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.82028, -6.14801
- SMR number
- WI040-049----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is the record for a burnt mound excavated by Colin D. Gracie (97E303) on the Arklow bypass scheme. A horseshoe-shaped spread of burnt material (diam. 5–6m) was excavated but no trace of a hearth or trough was found. The only find was a flint flake from the surface of the burnt spread. (http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Wicklow&id=4120)
Compiled by: Denis Power
date of upload: 25 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.