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
- 54.05626, -9.38192
- SMR number
- MA038-200----
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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 reclaimed and boggy pasture on the W bank of a N-flowing stream. There is a coniferous forestry plantation to SW.
When discovered in 1996, the field had recently been reseeded, and this burnt mound was visible as a roughly circular surface spread (Diam. c. 7m) of heat-shattered stone in a charcoal-rich matrix, beneath a thin cover of grass. An E-W field drain lies immediately to S.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.