Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Carrowndangan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowndangan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82317, -9.05930
- SMR number
- MA080-056----
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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 rough, scrubby woodland, adjacent to a spring in a natural basin of wet ground at the base of a steep NNW-facing ridge slope. The area is marked ‘Carrowdangan Wood’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map.
A roughly oval mound (c. 6m NW–SE; c. 4-5m NE–SW; H 0.3m) of firm dry ground amidst an expanse of soft, wet terrain. It is composed of heat-shattered stones and occasional charcoal fragments in dark soil.
The exact limits of the mound are obscured by a large willow tree, whose roots have spread over the mound. A spring/drain lies immediately to E, and flows to NNE flanked on the E side by a field fence.
A rath (MA080-046001-) crowns the ridge is c. 150m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.