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
- 53.88133, -9.02908
- SMR number
- MA071-206----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In lowlying, damp rush-grown pasture, located on the W bank of a NNW flowing stream/drain.
Sod-covered, circular mound (12.4m NE–SW; 11.4m NW–SE; H 0.4m), bisected centrally on a NE–SW axis by a field drain (Wth 1.4m at top, 0.8m at base; D 0.4m) which intersects with the stream/drain 3m to NE. Burnt stone in charcoal-rich soil is exposed in the drain section.
The mound is in a rather dilapidated condition. Two shallow linear features, possibly cultivation ridges traverse the NW half of the mound on a NE–SW axis and a cattle track has eroded part of the SW edge of the mound. Another burnt mound (MA071-205----) is located 50m to NNW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.