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Burnt mound

Knockalegan (Kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Knockalegan, 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
Knockalegan (Kilmaine By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.67377, -9.08838
SMR number
MA111-102----

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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 rough pasture, located on the SE edge of a broad, expanse of flat reclaimed pasture and boggy ground. An E–W property wall intervenes between the mound and a natural rise which lies a few meters to NW.
An irregular-shaped mound (c. 11.4m N–S; c. 9.6m E–W; H 0.4-0.5m at N, 0.65m at S) composed of small angular stones in a matrix of black soil. The mound has suffered disturbance in recent years and survives as three close-set, sod-covered rises. At S are two conjoined rises (diam. of each c. 5m) with an intervening shallow dip (Wth 1m). A tractor tract, consisting of an E–W depression (Wth 2m), separates the S portion from a third low rise (diam. 5-6m) at N.
There is another burnt mound (MA111-103----) c. 100m to E in the same field, and a burnt mound (MA111-104001-) and a fulacht fia (MA111-104002-) are located c. 80-100m to SE.

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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