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
- 53.74659, -8.76294
- SMR number
- MA103-071----
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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 pasture, adjacent to a field drain in a natural depression of wet ground. Ground rises gently to the NW.
Prominent roughly D-shaped, sod-covered rise (10.6m N–S; 14.4m E–W; H 0.5-0.6m) with broadly sloping sides. The SE side is marked by a slumped almost linear scarp (H 0.7m), possibly result of disturbance during construction of the field drain, which lies 2m to SE and is now largely silted up. A slight dip in the mound on the S-SW side, facing an area of wettish ground, may indicate the location of a trough. Angular stone fragments, charcoal fragments and dark soil were visible at the S and W sides of the mound when it was inspected in 1998. There is a church (MA103-008001-) and a children’s burial ground (MA103-008002-) c. 10m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.