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Mound

Gortaneden (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Gortaneden, 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
Gortaneden (Tirawley By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.07256, -9.35975
SMR number
MA038-147----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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 a level ground in an area of gently undulating terrain.
Sub-circular rise (28.4m N–S; c. 30m E–W; H 2.9m) with a somewhat flattened top (diam. c. 6m). The curving slope on the W half is sharply defined but there is a broader, more gradual slope at SE. Several stones of various sizes protrude from the sod on top of the mound but form no structural pattern. A massive boulder rest on top of the NE end of the mound. A portion (5m E–W; 4m N–S) of the slope at ENE has been quarried out, and a smaller, shallower area of disturbance is visible on the S slope. A field bank (Wth 1.65m; H 0.7m) abuts the base of the rise at S. There are several similar rounded rises or small drumlin-like natural mounds in the surrounding landscape. This rise, however, appears more clearly defined; it may be a constructed mound or a modified natural mound.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 15 August 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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