Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 53.67288, -9.08703
- SMR number
- MA111-104002-
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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, located on a gently W–facing slope bordering an expanse of flat reclaimed pasture and rush-grown, boggy ground which stretches to W–NW.
A low, roughly kidney-shaped rise (c. 11.5m N–S; c. 13m E–W) with a central depression opening to W. The mound appears to have been partly levelled; it is highest and most clearly defined at S but elsewhere its exact limits area difficult to trace. An eroded section of the mound revealed a compacted concentration of stone fragments in black soil. There is a burnt mound (MA111-104001-) c. 15m to N, and two burnt mounds (MA111-097----; MA111-098----) are located c. 100m to NW and c. 95m to NNE, respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 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.