Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Woodfield, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodfield
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86674, -8.88133
- SMR number
- MA081-050----
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 pasture, located on the S bank of River Trimoge, overlooked by low ridge c. 50m to SW.
Heat-shattered sandstone fragments in a charcoal-rich matrix are visible in section of the river bank at a point where the river bank has been cut back to create a cattle watering hole. The layer (D 0.2-0.4m) of burnt material is visible beneath a layer (D 0.1-0.15m) of sod on both the E and W side of the U-shaped cut away area (8m N-S; 8.5m E-W) in the river bank.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.