Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cloonalaghan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonalaghan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25394, -9.25624
- SMR number
- MA015-075----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In lowlying expanse of rough damp pasture. Low, roughly circular mound (10.7m N-S; 9.6m E-W; H 0.4m) situated on the SE side of a natural rise. It is composed of a dense concentration of small angular stones in a matrix of dark brown soil that contrasts with the orange-brown soil elsewhere in the field. There is a rath (MA015-015----) is c. 20m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.