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
- 54.05883, -9.33314
- SMR number
- MA038-196----
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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 flat, damp pasture bordering the N bank of the Fiddaunglass stream.
When discovered in 1996, reclamation works had recently been carried out in the field, and this possible burnt mound was evident as a surface spread (Diam. c. 4m) of burnt material on the river bank. Two slabs, set on edge, protruded from the sod on the S limit of the spread. The spread was truncated on the N side by a sunken track cut into river bank to allow farm stock access to the water. It is one of a linear cluster of fulachtaí fia/burnt mounds located along the course of the stream. A burnt mound (MA038-195----) is 50m to S and another (MA038-197----) is 30m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.