Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ross (fallon), County Mayo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.