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Burnt mound

Steelaun, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Steelaun, County Mayo, 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
Steelaun
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicatedNot indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicatedNot indicated
Coordinates
54.24984, -9.22612
SMR number
MA015-084001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Located in a shallow basin of damp, rush-grown pasture that occupies a natural terrace on a SE-facing ridge slope. To NW the ground rises steeply to a ridge that dominates the skyline. There is a field drain, on an ENE-WSW axis, 2m to S of the mound.
This appears as a roughly circular area (c. 8m E–W; c. 6-7m N–S) marked by a covering of moss and heather, which distinguishes it from the long grass and rushes of the surrounding field. It consists of a concentration of stone fragments in black soil, overlain by a layer (D 0.2m) of peaty soil. The exact limits of the mound are uncertain.
In the same field, a possible burnt mound (MA015-084002-) is located 20m to NW, another burnt mound (MA015-084003-) is c. 35m to NW and a fulacht fia (MA015-084004-) is c. 55m to NW. Another fulacht fia (MA015-083----) is located 80m to SSW.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 December 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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