Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Killeen (Tirawley By., Crossmolina Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (Tirawley By., Crossmolina Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05726, -9.32450
- SMR number
- MA038-194----
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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 an expanse of flat, damp pasture bordering the N bank of the Fiddaunglass stream.
A low, roughly circular rise (Diam. c. 6-8m; H 0.3-0.4m) thickly covered with heather and moss and with furrow like grooves traversing it on a N-S axis. Beneath a layer of dark, peaty soil the mound appears to be composed of shattered sandstone. One of a linear cluster of fulachtai fia/burnt mounds located along the course of the stream, one (MA038-188----) of which lies 20m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.