Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cloonacurry, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonacurry
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77815, -8.84779
- SMR number
- MA092-127----
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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 an expanse of damp, rush-grown pasture, bordering the SE shore of Cloonacurry Lough. To S there is a gradual rise in ground level, and the N– NE side of the lake is bordered by a low ridge. The field was converted to forestry in 2015. Slight remnants of a burnt mound were noted in March 2015 in and around a forestry trench at approximately this location (pers. comm. Michael Cox, consultant archaeologist). According to local information, the burnt mound was levelled during land reclamation works undertaken in the 1980’s.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 November 2015
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.