Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohola
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89903, -9.07187
- SMR number
- MA071-210----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In wet, rush-grown pasture, located at the base of a W-facing slope with a stream/drain 4m to W.
A roughly D-shaped mound (13.3m E–W; 12.5m N–S; H 0.4m at E, 0.8m at W) incorporated on the straight side to N into an E–W field bank which has a parallel field ditch (Wth 0.8m) on its N side. The mound is compact and dry, covered in short grass which distinguishes it from the surrounding thick rushes and damp ground. It is composed of a concentration of stone fragments in dark soil, visible where the sod mantle has been eroded. A portion of the mound may have been levelled to N of the field boundary, where a flat stony ground surface extend for c. 6m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.