Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Rathmacostello, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmacostello
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07787, -9.37059
- SMR number
- MA038-179----
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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 NW edge of a depression of wet ground on the S side of the River Deel.
This burnt mound is evident as a sod-covered subcircular heap (diam. c. 3m; H 0.5m) of burnt stone and charcoal-rich soil. The nature of this small mound is uncertain: it may be the in situ remnants of a damaged fulacht fia or it may be displaced material dumped at this location during land reclamation works.
Two fulachtai fia (MA038-178----; (MA038-177----) are located 15m and 22m to SE, respectively. A rath (MA038-033) is located c. 30m to S on rising ground.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.