Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Goreyhill, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Goreyhill
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67371, -6.31495
- SMR number
- WX006-093----
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
Situated towards the head of a SW-NE valley. Archaeological testing (08E0415) uncovered two small areas of burnt mound material (dims 1m x 1.15m; T 0.05m; 0.4m x 0.5m; T 0.08m) located 2m apart, which were completely excavated. (O'Hara 2008; 20011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 August, 2012
References
O'Hara, R. 2008 Archaeological assessment. Gorey Hill, Gorey. Unpublished report. Archaeoological Consultancy Services.
O'Hara, R. 2011 Gorey Hill. Burnt mound spreads. In I. Bennett. Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, P 373, No. 1283. Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.