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Burnt mound

Callow, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Callow, 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
Callow
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.98180, -9.02390
SMR number
MA061-222----

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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 rough pasture which was converted to forestry in 2016, located on lowlying ground sloping to S towards an area of marshy ground. There is a steam c. 13m to NW. This burnt mound was discovered in April 2016 during archaeological monitoring of a private forestry plantation. There was no evidence of the mound at ground surface but a layer (L 11m NE−SW; D 0.3-0.35m) of burnt stone and charcoal was exposed in section at a depth of 0.35m below surface on both sides of a forestry trench (Wth c. 1m). This area was excluded from planting to protect the monument. (Pers. comm. Angela Wallace, consultant archaeologist, May 2016).

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 5 May 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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