Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
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
- 53.76254, -8.83739
- SMR number
- MA092-117----
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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, on the NE shore of Lough Bekan.
When inspected in 1998, this burnt spread was visible as a roughly circular area (diam. 6-8m) of black soil marked by differential vegetation growth; no stones were visible. Its full original extent is unclear.
There are a burnt mounds (MA092-114----; MA092-115----; MA092-116----) c. 180m to WNW, c. 25m to NW and c. 220m to NW, respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.