Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballywater Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballywater Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53756, -6.24507
- SMR number
- WX022-031----
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
Archaeological monitoring (04E0871) of works in preparation for a windfarm identified archaeological features, some of which were preserved in situ but others were excavated under the same licence. This is a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 4.6m E-W; 3.5m N-S) overlying a pit or trough (1.4m E-W; 0.7m N-S) filled with a charcoal-rich black silty clay with heat-shattered sandstone. A spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 2.7m E-W; 1.4m N-S) is just E of the trough. The deposits were preserved under a layer of terram, sand and hardcore, during the laying of which further burnt mound material was identified. (McLoughlin 2007; 2008, 4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 June, 2012
Amended: 3 December 2020
References
McLoughlin, C. 2007 Ballywater. Prehistoric and medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 460, No. 1790. Wordwell, Dublin.
McLoughlin, C. 2008 Archaeological monitoring and excavation report, Ballywater Lower, Co. Wexford. Licence: 04E0871 Unpublished report. Stafford/McLoughlin Archaeology.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.