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Mound

Forthill, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Forthill, 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
Forthill
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.78533, -8.73786
SMR number
MA093-106----

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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, located on a ridge, with a steep fall of ground on the S side giving good views, particularly extensive to S over lowlying, gently rolling grassland, and to SE over an area of bog.
Roughly D-shaped, flat-topped platform or mound (7.3m N-S; 5.4m E-W to pit; H 0.7m) truncated on the straight side to W by a sandpit (7m N-S; 6m E-W; D 1-1.5m). A slightly raised stony rim gives the platform a slightly concave profile. A number of large stones, protruding from the sod, form a rough outer facing or kerb at NNW-N. Merging with the E side of the mound is a low, linear berm-like feature (Wth 1m; H 0.4m), which does not extend beyond the mound, possibly the remnant of a N-S field boundary.
The section face of the sandpit reveals that the mound is composed of an upper layer (D 0.15m) of jumbled small-medium stones, beneath which is a layer (D 0.3m) of brown sandy soil with occasional inclusions of small stones, pebbles and charcoal fragments. This overlies orange boulder clay which appears to be natural.
There is a rath (MA093-029----) c. 200m to NW and an enclosure (MA093-030----) is c. 200m to SW.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 30 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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