Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Kildaree, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildaree
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07922, -9.36423
- SMR number
- MA038-182----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in pasture, in a sheltered location at the base of a natural NW-facing scarp of rising ground, which borders the S margin of an expanse of flat, wettish ground on the S bank of the River Deel.
A compact, grass-covered oval mound (11.6m NE-SW; 8.5m NW-SE; H 0.7m at SE, 1.20m at NW) composed of shattered sandstone in a charcoal-rich matrix. A burnt mound (MA038-183----) is located 25m to N and another (MA038-184----) is 25m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.