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 indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94539, -8.79530
- SMR number
- MA063-070----
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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 a flat stretch of damp pasture bordered to E by the N-flowing Mullaghanoe River, and to W by rising ground.
A grass-covered kidney-shaped, mound (10.5m N–S; c. 9m E–W; H 0.6m) composed of heat-shattered stone in charcoal-rich soil, with a shallow indentation or hollow on the E side. It appears to be located on the course of a tributary stream, which is now dried up.
At the time of inspection in 1996, reclamation works had recently taken place in the field. A NNW−SSE field bank located immediately to W of the fulacht fia had been levelled and the spoil was spread over the field. A surface spread (10.5m N−S; c. 7m E−E) of burnt stone in black soil was visible 4m to E of the fulacht fia. The source of this material was unclear –it may have been a levelled part of the upstanding fulacht fia or possibly part of a separate feature.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.