Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cloontumper, County Mayo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.