Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cooloughter, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooloughter
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24194, -6.49919
- SMR number
- WX047-131002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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
Situated on a S-facing slope with a small E-W stream c. 20m to the S. Archaeological testing (07E0246) produced a length of burnt mound material (L 10m) with an adjacent pit (diam. 1.5m) just to the N. The ring-ditch (WX047-131----) is c. 90m to the NE. (McLoughlin 2007, 5)
References
McLoughlin, C. 2007 Archaeological testing report. Cooloughter. Licence: 07E0246. Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.