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
- 53.71970, -8.72594
- SMR number
- MA103-078001-
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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 flat, rush-grown boggy pasture, located at the base of a steep SW-facing ridge slope.
A surface spread (c. 8m NNW–SSE; c. 5-6m WSW–ESE) of shattered stone in charcoal rich soil was noted here in 1999. A second surface concentration of burnt material (MA103-078002-) was visible 5m to SSE. The nature of these remains is uncertain. One possibility is that the two spreads are part of a single levelled burnt mound with overall dimensions of c. 15m.
A burnt mound (MA103-077----) is located c. 15m to NW and another burnt mound (MA103-079----) is incorporated into a field fence c. 10 to N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.