Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Greenwood, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenwood
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76407, -8.83889
- SMR number
- MA092-116----
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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 pasture, at the base of a SW-facing slope close to the N shoreline of Bekan Lough.
The mound (diam. c. 8m) is visible as a very low, sod-covered rise with small patches of stony black soil exposed where the surface has been denuded by farm stock. The full original extent of the mound is unclear. Traces of cultivation ridges, on a NE–SW axis, are discernible in the surrounding field.
There is a burnt mound (MA092-114----) c. 140m to S, a burnt mound (MA092-115----) c. 200m to SSE, and a possible burnt spread (MA092-117----) c. 220m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.