Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Derradda (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derradda (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75037, -8.90239
- SMR number
- MA102-057----
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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 wet, marginal land which slopes to N, bordered at S by a road. This monument was discovered during archaeological monitoring (01E0314) on the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002). A deposit (c. 2.2m by 2.6m; D 0.05-0.08m) of burnt sandstone and charcoal was exposed in the pipeline wayleave on the N edge of a road. It underlay a layer of peat and rested directly on a layer of marl. The deposit may represent the N limit of a burnt mound or fulacht fia, the main body of which probably extends to SE beneath the road (Guinan 2015, 121).
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 March 2016
References
Guinan, B. 2015 On the plains of Mayo. Archaeological discoveries on the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme Stage III: Claremorris-Knock-Ballyhaunis-Ballindine. Mayo County Council Archaeological Series 5. Castlebar.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.