Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Treanacally Or Hagfield, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanacally Or Hagfield
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not located
- Coordinates
- 53.93813, -8.79756
- SMR number
- MA063-066----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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 reclaimed pasture, located at the base of a gentle rise on the NW side of a natural depression (c. 30m across), which prior to reclamation was wet and marshy.
According to local information, this monument consisted of a small, low roughly semi-circular grass-covered mound. It was levelled during land reclamation, which exposed a concentration (diam. c. 10m) of angular stone fragments in greasy, black soil. There appeared to be stones defining a shallow hollow area in front of the mound.
When inspected in 1996, the location was grass-covered and there was no surface evidence of the mound, but probing beneath the soil surface confirmed the presence of burnt stone and dark soil. A farm track lies immediately to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.