Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballyglass Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72407, -8.72072
- SMR number
- MA103-076----
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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, located at the base of a N-facing slope, on top of which a rath (MA103-032----) is located. An expanse of lowlying boggy pasture stretches to N.
Low, flat-topped, roughly oval or oblong mound (10m N–S; c. 6.5m E–W; H 0.2m), which appears to be composed of shattered stone fragments in a black, charcoal-rich soil. There is a shallow slightly sunken indentation (2m E−W; 1.8m N−S) towards the N end of the E side, but it is not clear if this represents a trough hollow. The W edge of the mound is indistinct, and the S side is bordered by a partly silted up, vegetation-clogged field drain.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.