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Burnt mound

Ballyglass Middle, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Ballyglass Middle, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David 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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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