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Mound

Carrowneden (Costello By., Aghamore Par.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Carrowneden (Costello By., Aghamore Par.), County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowneden (Costello By., Aghamore Par.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.79378, -8.79800
SMR number
MA093-020001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, in an expanse of flat damp pasture and bog adjacent to the Mannin River which flows out of Island Lake 230m to S.
Elongated oblong rise or mound (c. 29m WNW-ESE; c. 17m NNE-SSW; H c. 2m) with an rather irregular and dilapidated appearance. The top of the mound forms a narrow relatively flat spine (Wth c. 2-3m) which grades into a well defined, steep slope on the S side and a gradual, slumped slope on the N side. The mound has the appearance of a natural feature, and appears to be composed of fine gravel/sand. It is sod-covered and dotted with hawthorn and blackthorn bushes. A heap of dredging upcast from the river abuts the mound at S.
The mound is known locally as a ‘fairy hill’ and is said to contain a souterrain (MA093-020002-) (Pers. comm. B. Freyne, SMR file).

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 17 June 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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