Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Carrowgarve South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgarve South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08026, -9.40121
- SMR number
- MA038-206----
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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
Located in rough, poorly drained pasture, on the W bank of the Fiddaunglass stream, a tributary of the River Deel. There is a forestry plantation to NW.
A low irregular-shaped, heather-covered rise (4m N-S; 3Mm E-W) of burnt stone fragments in black soil located at the edge of the stream. The nature of this mound is uncertain: its small size and disturbed appearance suggests the possibility that it is displaced material, possibly even derived from a partly destroyed fulacht fia (MA038-205---), which lies 12m to N.
One in a linear cluster of fulachtaí fia/burnt mounds (MA038-203--- to MA038-208----) located along the course of the stream.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
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