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Burnt mound

Shantallow, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Shantallow, 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
Shantallow
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64604, -9.07103
SMR number
MA111-096----

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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 pasture, in an area of gently undulating limestone terrain. Located on a gentle E–facing slope on the W bank of a stream/drain, sheltered to the NW by a low rise. The stream/drain is shallow and has been recut in the past but is now choked with vegetation; the water flows to SW.
A low, sod-covered semicircular rise (10.5m E–W; c. 6.8m N–S; H 0.3m at W, 0.5m at E), with a slight central hollow marked by a dense growth of nettles. The mound is bordered on the straight side to S by an E–W field wall. A slight rise (2–3m N–S) abutting the S side of the wall may also be part of the mound.
When inspected in 2000, a portion of the mound, which had been eroded by farm stock, revealed angular stone fragments in dark soil.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 9 March 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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