Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Carroward, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carroward
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89359, -9.08654
- SMR number
- MA071-211----
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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 pasture, located on the E bank of a N-flowing stream in the base of a narrow, steep-sided valley. A N−S field drain with parallel field wall now borders the E side of the stream, intervening between the burnt mound and the stream
A low, grass-covered, roughly D-shaped rise (c. 9m N–S; c. 6m E–W) of angular stones in dark soil, bordered on the straight side to W by the field drain. The mound appears to have been partly levelled; it is best defined at N−E but elsewhere its limits, particularly to S, are poorly defined. A slight depression on its SW edge may indicate the position of the trough.
There is a rath (MA071-118----) 175m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.