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Burnt mound

Treanacally Or Hagfield, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Treanacally Or Hagfield, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

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

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