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Burnt mound

Ballynaclash, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Ballynaclash, 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
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----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

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

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