Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballycoony, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycoony
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16834, -8.61799
- SMR number
- GA105-014001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a marshy field close to a stream and some 60m to the E of a fulacht fia (GA105-014----). Fire-fractured stones and black earth are evident in this irregularly shaped low burnt mound (5.8m E-W; H 0.25m max).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.