Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Clonhasten, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonhasten
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50930, -6.54575
- SMR number
- WX020-075----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the top of a steep NW-facing slope down to the NE-SW River Slaney, c. 400m to the NW. Archaeological testing (07E1124) of an extensive area produced evidence of a burnt mound in an area of broken and burnt stones (dims. 11m plus N-S x 9m E-W; T 0.3m plus). Burnt mound (WX020-074----) is c. 70m to the N. (Carroll 2010; Prunty 2007, 19)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 June, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.