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
- 53.78526, -8.85651
- SMR number
- MA092-111----
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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 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. The remains are visible as a low mound (max. dim. c. 15m), irregular in shape and of uncertain extent, covered in hummocky grass, located 3m from current shoreline of the lake. A central raised core (c. 7m NW–SE; c. 5m NE–SW; H 0.5m) is surrounded on all sides by a low spread of angular stone and charcoal fragments.
Another burnt mound (MA092-110----) is located on the same shoreline c. 60m to NW. A possible crannóg (MA092-089----) is indicated on the 1838 map in Derrykin Lough close to this location, and another possible crannóg (MA092-027----) is shown in the lake c. 70m to NW. There is a rath (MA092-026----) c. 180m to WNW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.