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Burnt mound

Ballinamore, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Ballinamore, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinamore
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.82751, -9.04266
SMR number
MA080-059----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 W bank of the Geestaun River. A grove of trees, named ‘River Wood’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map, lies immediately to S, bordering the river.
Sod-covered, semi-circular rise (13m NNW–SSE; c. 6m ENE–WSW; H 0.3m) bordered on the straight side by the river. A ruined stone wall that lines the river bank merges with the straight E side of the mound and swings across the SW arc of the mound. The river is relatively shallow and the burnt mound may be located close to a fording point. There is a rath (MA080-048----) c. 200m to SSW and an enclosure (MA080-058----) c. 300m to SW.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 6 December 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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