Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Sranalaghta South,Sranalaghta North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sranalaghta South,Sranalaghta North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06260, -9.33394
- SMR number
- MA038-186----
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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 damp pasture, located adjacent to a natural spring, named ‘Tobernagawna’ on 1922 OS map.
A low, irregular rise (diam. c. 6m), with an uneven sod and moss-covered surface, lies on the N side of a NNE-SSW field ditch/drain (D 0.4m). The mound is truncated on its S edge by the drain, and appears to incorporate upcast from the drain, making it difficult to determine its original plan and dimensions. A layer of shattered stone in a charcoal-rich matrix is visible at the base of both section faces of the drain. A low field bank, topped with a post and wire field fence, borders the N side of the field drain.
Another burnt mound (MA038-187----) is 20m to SSE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.