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
- 54.05568, -9.40420
- SMR number
- MA038-211----
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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 against the base of a SE-facing slope of rising ground on margins of damp pasture, reclaimed from bog. A mound (c. 7m N-S; 4-5m E-W; H 1m) of burnt sandstone in a charcoal-rich matrix accumulated to a height of c. 1m against a natural slope. Covered in moss and rushes.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.