Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Knockalegan (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockalegan (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67321, -9.08705
- SMR number
- MA111-104001-
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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 average pasture, in the NW corner of a field, located at the base of the W-facing slope, bordering an expanse of flat reclaimed pasture and rush-grown, boggy ground which stretches to W–NW.
A low mound (c. 6m E–W; c. 14m N–S) consisting of two sod-covered rises separated by a depression (Wth 3m), possibly indicating the location of a trough. The limits are not clearly defined.
There is a fulacht fia (MA111-104002-) c. 15m to S, and two burnt mounds (MA111-097----; MA111-098----) are located c. 85m to NW and c. 80m to NNE respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.