Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballyglass Middle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass Middle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71982, -8.72610
- SMR number
- MA103-077----
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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 an expanse of flat, rush-grown boggy pasture, at the base of a steep SW-facing ridge slope.
A low, sod-covered mound (5.7m E–W; 3.7m N–S) of firm dry ground surrounded by soft, wet ground. It appears to be composed of shattered stone in black, charcoal-rich soil. The SW edge of the mound is clipped by a shallow field drain bordered on its S side by a field fence (Wth 1m; H 0.8m), incorporated into which is burnt stone. Flanking the SE side of the field fence is another deeper field drain (W 2m), in the section face of which a layer of black stony soil is evident.
There are two possible burnt mounds (MA103-078001-; MA103-078002-) c. 5m to SSE, and another burnt mound (MA103-079---) is incorporated into a field fence c. 10 to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.