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
- 53.71983, -8.72583
- SMR number
- MA103-079----
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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 layer (L c. 4m) of shattered stone in charcoal-rich soil is visible in section in a N–S field fence/property boundary (Wth 1.6m), and in the sides of the two field drains that flank the field fence.
A burnt mound (MA103-077----) is located c. 10m to W, and there are two possible burnt mounds (MA103-078001; MA103-078002) c. 5m to SSE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.