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Burnt mound

Cloontumper, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Cloontumper, 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
Cloontumper
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.74071, -8.84012
SMR number
MA102-055----

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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 a field of damp rush-grown pasture, converted to forestry. This burnt mound is visible as a concentration (5m E–W; 1m N–S) of angular burnt stone fragments, in a matrix of black charcoal-rich soil, in the base of an E–W forestry trench (Wth 1m; D 0.3m). In the shallow section faces of the trench, a thin layer of peaty topsoil overlies the burnt material. There is no trace of a mound at surface level and the burnt material does not extend into parallel trenches, which lie 6-7m to N and S. There is a burnt mound (MA102-54----) 15m to NE, and a fulacht fia (MA102-56----) 15m to WSW. (Guinan 2015, 113, 116-117, Cloontumper III).

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 June 2013

References

Guinan, B. 2010 Carrowlough and Lisduff. Ringfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 319-320, no. 1224. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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