Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Churchpark,Woodpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchpark,Woodpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74879, -8.80685
- SMR number
- MA103-074----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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, located adjacent to a SE-flowing stream/drain in a small valley. There is damp boggy ground on the N side of the stream.
A layer of angular stone fragments in black soil is exposed in the W terminal of a field bank than lines the S bank of a stream gully (Wth 4m). It was not possible to determine the extent of the layer, or whether it is in situ, or merely represents displaced material incorporated onto the field bank. On the opposite bank of the river, a thin lens of dark soil is exposed in section beneath the sod. Possibly the remains of a destroyed fulacht fia. Dredging of the stream has taken place and heaps of upcast material line the N bank of the stream.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.