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Mound

Ross (Fallon), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Ross (Fallon), 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
Ross (Fallon)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.23499, -9.21963
SMR number
MA015-086----

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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

In pasture, located on top of a small ridge giving good views over Killala Bay, and to N over the mouth of the Palmerstown River.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A low, relatively flat-topped oblong mound (16m WNW; 6.5m NNE–SSW; H 0.3m at NNE, 0.65m at SSW), with a somewhat rounded E end and a more linear or squared-off W end. A boulder protrudes from the top of the mound to E of centre. The function of this mound is uncertain. It is grass-covered.
There is a mound barrow (MA015-085----) c. 100m to SSW, a ringbarrow (MA015-035----) c. 150m to SW, a rath (MA015-034----) c. 50m to NNE, and another mound (MA015-087----) c. 170m to N.

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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