Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cullentragh (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullentragh (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78564, -8.85727
- SMR number
- MA092-110----
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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
Located at the base of a NE-facing ridge slope, in a 20m wide margin of rough, wet pasture and reeds bordering the W shore of Derrykin Lough.
This burnt mound appears to have been partly levelled. It consist of a low, grass-covered oblong mound (13.9m N–S; c. 12m E–W; H 0.3m at W, 0.8m at E) forming a shallow arc of firm dry ground amidst the surrounding damp terrain. The E side of the mound is broadly slumped. In parts where the sod cover has been denuded, concentrations of small angular sandstone fragments are exposed in a matrix of charcoal-rich soil. A surface spread of stone and charcoal was noted extending for a c. 10m to the SE–S of the mound. The exact limits of the mound are uncertain.
Another burnt mound (MA092-111----) is located on the same shoreline c. 60m to SE. A possible crannóg (MA092-027----) is indicated on the 1838 map in Derrykin Lough close to this location, and another possible crannóg (MA092-089----) is shown in the lake c. 70m to SW. There is a rath (MA092-026----) c. 140m to WNW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.