Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Rathslevin, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathslevin
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88185, -9.02985
- SMR number
- MA071-205----
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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 lowlying, damp rush-grown pasture, located on the W bank of a NNW flowing stream/drain. Immediately to NW is a minor road, on an ENE-WSW axis, bordered by a field drain.
A sod-covered, oblong mound (9.5m E–W; 4m N–S; H 0.3m) truncated to N by the field drain (W 0.9m; D c. 0.8m). A layer of heat-shattered, friable sandstone fragments in a matrix of charcoal-rich soil is visible in the drain section. Another burnt mound (MA071-206----) is located 50m to SSE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.