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Burnt mound

Carrowgarve South, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Carrowgarve South, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowgarve South
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.08053, -9.40123
SMR number
MA038-207----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 poorly drained pasture, planted with conifers, located at the base of the W slope of a low rise, close to the E bank of the Fiddaunglass stream, a tributary of the River Deel.
When discovered in 1996, this burnt mound was visible as a layer (D c. 0.3m) of angular burnt stone in a charcoal-rich matrix in two intersecting forestry trenches: The layer (L 6m) is visible in section in the E face of a N–S trench (W 0.9m) and also (L c. 4m) in the N face of a perpendicular trench (W 0.5m) that branches to the E. A thin layer of peaty soil overlies the burnt material. There is no trace of the mound at ground surface. 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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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