Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Sranalaghta South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sranalaghta South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06239, -9.33382
- SMR number
- MA038-187----
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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 lowlying damp pasture. A layer (L c. 5m; D. 0.45m) of heat-shattered stone fragments in a charcoal-rich matrix is visible in both section faces of a NW-SE field drain (Wth 1.20m). A layer (D 0.3-0.5m) of peaty soil and sod overlies the burnt layer. At its SE end the burnt layer can be traced extending for c. 1m along the section face of a second drain, which branches to the NNE. An old grassed-over farm track (Wth 4m) borders the SW side of the NW-SE drain. Another burnt mound (MA038-186----) is located 20m to NNW.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.