Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballynaclash, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaclash
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43083, -6.33499
- SMR number
- WX033-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
Situated on a SE facing slope of a low rise in the basin of the N S River Blackwater close to where it enters the sea, with the stream c. 320m to the E and the sea shore c. 450m to the SE. A circular area (diam. 11m WNW-ESE; 10.3m NNE-SSW) of broken and burnt stone in a black matrix (T 0.14-0.4m) was recorded in forestry operations by Emmet Byrnes in 2012. It will be excluded from the plantation.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.