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
- 54.23743, -9.22095
- SMR number
- MA015-087----
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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 pasture, located in the SW corner of a field, close to the junction of two field banks, on a spur of elevated ground, at a break of slope where the ground falls away steeply to the flat sandy shoreline of the Palmerstown River estuary.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A low, oblong or sub-rectangular mound (7m N–S; 4.3m E–W; H 0.4m at E, 0.85m at W) with relatively vertical sides, steepest at S and W. The top of the mound slopes gently from S down to N. Stones protrude in parts from the sod cover, most evident on the W side. The function of this mound is uncertain. It is grass-covered.
There are a rath (MA015-034----) 200m to SE, another mound (MA015-086----) 280m to S, a mound barrow (MA015-085----) c. 400m to S, and ringbarrow (MA015-035----) c. 500m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.