Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Claggarnagh East (Burrishoole By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claggarnagh East (Burrishoole By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83064, -9.37063
- SMR number
- MA078-070----
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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
Located on the E side of the island of Illanteige East, in the SE part of Islandeady Lough
This burnt mound was discovered in February 2016 during archaeological monitoring of a private forestry plantation. A layer (D 0.1-0.4m) of burnt stones and charcoal fragments was noted in the section faces of two parallel N−S forestry trenches (Wth c. 1m; D 0.4-0.5m), set 6.7m apart. The burnt layer lies beneath a layer of sod/topsoil (D c. 0.15m). At ground surface, a slight, roughly circular mound (11m N−S; 10m E−W) is evident, with the trenches cutting through the E and W sides. The trenches were backfilled and the site was marked for exclusion from planting. (pers. comm. Angela Wallace, March 2016).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 April 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.