Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Knocknaskeagh (gallen By., Killeden Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknaskeagh (gallen By., Killeden Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84034, -9.03312
- SMR number
- MA080-057----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 lowlying wet pasture, located at the base of the SW-facing slope of a hillock, on top of which a rath (MA080-037----) is located. There is another rath (MA080-025----) c. 130m to NW.
A slight mound (3m NW-SE; c. 1m NE–SW) borders the E side of a straight NW−SE field drain (Wth 2m; D 1.2m). Angular stone fragments in black soil are visible in both section faces of the drain. It may be the remnants of a fulacht fia cut through by the drain.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.