Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Killacorraun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killacorraun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05509, -9.40297
- SMR number
- MA038-210----
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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
Located in damp pasture, reclaimed from bog. Rising ground c. 20m to W.
A layer (L c. 7m E–W; D 0.4m) of shattered sandstone fragments in a charcoal-rich matrix is visible in section, at a depth of c. 1m below field surface, in the S face of an E-W drain. It overlies peat, and is overlain by peaty soil, and by a field bank which borders the drain.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.