Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Dooncastle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooncastle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79896, -9.45394
- SMR number
- MA088-102----
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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
In rough pasture, close to the E boundary of a field, located on slightly elevated ground on the E margins of an expanse of lowlying wet, boggy rush-covered land. This burnt mound appears as a low oval or oblong grass-covered rise (15m N–S; 13m E–W to field wall; H 0.6-0.7m at W), with a pronounced slope on the W half falling to an area of wet ground. The limits on the E side are not clear and appear to be truncated by a N–S field wall bordering a modern road. The mound is composed of a concentration of angular sandstone fragments in black, charcoal-rich soil.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.