Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Rosspile, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosspile
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30389, -6.75369
- SMR number
- WX040-083----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a gentle E and NE-facing slope, with the headwaters of small streams that flow c. 450m NE to the NW-SE River Corock c. 100m to the NE and SE. This is an oval mound (dims. 16m N-S; 11m E-W; H 0.4m) composed of broken and burnt stones with a grass covering. Burnt mound (WX040-084----) is c. 230m to the S. It can be seen as a dark stain on the aerial photographs of Google Earth (2010).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 21 February, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.