Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballinloughaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinloughaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05392, -9.38163
- SMR number
- MA038-198----
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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
In an area of mixed reclaimed and boggy pasture, located on the W bank of a N-flowing stream. There is a coniferous forestry plantation to SW. A layer (L c. 12m; D 0.5m) of heat shattered stone in charcoal-rich soil is visible in the W bank of the stream at a height of 0.6m above the stream bed. The layer lies directly beneath the sod and overlies a layer of grey sandy sub-soil and beneath that, a layer of grey clay. There is no above ground trace of a mound but probing beneath the sod reveals that the layer of burnt material extends at least 5m to W of the stream. Another burnt mound (MA038-199----) lies immediately to N on the E side of the stream. There is a rath (MA038-105----) 150m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.