Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Forthill, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forthill
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78655, -8.73308
- SMR number
- MA093-107----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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
On the level top of a ridge, adjacent to a townland boundary in the NE corner of a rectangular pasture field.
A roughly D-shaped mound (5.7m E-W; 3.2m N–S; H 0.7m at S, 1m at N) bordered on the straight N side by an E–W field ditch (Wth 2m) outside which is a field bank/townland boundary.
The mound appears to be largely earthen but incorporates some stone. According to local tradition, it may have been used as a children’s burial ground, but no traces of graves or gravemarkers are now evident. It is obscured by gorse. A post and wire fence segregates it from the rest of the field.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.