Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Grallagh (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74336, -8.75683
- SMR number
- MA103-066----
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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 pasture, on the edge of a naturally sheltered depression of wet, boggy ground at the base of a NW-facing slope, adjacent to a spring which flows from the base of the slope; an outflow stream extends to NW and is now channelled into a field drain.
This possible fulacht fia appears to have been partly levelled in the past. It is evident as a low, subcircular rise (diam. c. 12m), with indistinct edges which merge to S with gently rising ground. The exact limits of the mound are difficult to determine. When inspected in 1998, a portion the N edge of the mound was denuded of sod, revealing characteristic heat-shattered stone in black charcoal-rich soil. A burnt mound (MA103-066001-) is located 8m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
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- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.