Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Lowpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95832, -8.79963
- SMR number
- MA063-064----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on SE-facing slope bordering the W bank of the Mullaghanoe River.
A roughly circular surface spread (diam. c. 15m) of heat-shattered stone in a matrix of charcoal-rich soil was visible in August 1998 c. 3m W of the river bank. The remains were exposed during clearance of scrub from the river bank.
There is another burnt spread (MA063-065----) c. 35m to S and a rath (MA063-005----) is located 30m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.