Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Steelaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Steelaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25001, -9.22644
- SMR number
- MA015-084002-
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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 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.
This is evident as a slight rise (c. 8m E-W; c. 5m N-S) marked by a thick covering of grass, rushes and gorse. It appears to be composed of a dense concentration of stone fragments in dark grey/black soil. The exact limits of the mound are uncertain. In the same field, there is a fulacht fia (MA015-084001-) 20m to SE, a burnt mound (MA015-084003-) 8m to NW and another fulacht fia (MA015-084004-) is c. 35m to WNW. There is a fulacht fia (MA015-083----) 85m to SSW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.