Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Corraun (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corraun (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72061, -8.77369
- SMR number
- MA103-080----
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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 on the E margins of lowlying expanse of boggy ground. It is bordered to N and E by undulating terrain, dotted with low drumlins.
This burnt mound was discovered during archaeological testing (Licence no. 16E0186) carried out in advance of a proposed extension of a commercial quarry (McHugh 2016). A layer (24m N−S; 9m E−W) of fire-cracked stones, charcoal and ash was exposed 0.5m below ground level at the its E end and 1m below ground level at its W end. A row (L 0.6m) of four close-set, narrow stake-like timbers was visible protruding by c. 0.2m at a 45 degree angle from the centre of the burnt layer, possibly part of a trough or some form of wattle structure or surface. The burnt mound was not excavated; it was recorded and then covered with geotextile before the test trench was backfilled, and the location was excluded from any proposed development. A possible togher (MA103-081----) was found a few meters to N. (McHugh 2016)
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 March 2021
References
McHugh, T. 2016 Archaeological testing report of Corraun, Co. Mayo. Fadó Archaeology. Licence Number: 16E0186. Planning Number: 1655. Unpublished report submitted to NMS, April 2016
McHugh, T. 2016 2016:192 - Corraun, Mayo. Licence Number: 16E0186. In excavations.ie: database of Irish excavation reports, https://excavations.ie/report/2016/Mayo/0025212/
Nearby in the register
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.