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Burnt mound

Ballywater Lower, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Ballywater Lower, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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 Licence: 04E0871 Unpublished report.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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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