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
- 53.74354, -8.75664
- SMR number
- MA103-066001-
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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, in a small stand of conifers, adjacent to a spring.
The remains consist of a low, roughly circular mound (diam. c. 10-2m). Two heaps (diam. 2-3.5m; H 0.5-0.6m) of shattered stone and black soil, set 2m apart, sit on top of the mound, possibly the result of disturbance during the planting of conifer trees which are growing on the mound. The mound is clipped at WNW by a field drain, in the section face of which heat-shattered stone in charcoal-rich soil is visible. A tumbled field wall overlies the SE edge of the mound. The mound is covered in brambles and pine needle litter. Another burnt mound (MA103-066----) located 8m to SW.
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.