Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Treannaskehy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treannaskehy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68442, -8.85650
- SMR number
- MA112-116----
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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
Located in lowlying flat, reclaimed pastureland. This burnt mound was discovered during archaeologically monitored works on the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002). It was recorded and sampled under licence 01E0314 (Guinan 2015, 104, 106, Treannaskehy III). The N edge of a low mound of burnt sandstone and charcoal was exposed beneath topsoil (D 0.5-0.6m) on the edge of the pipeline wayleave, with the bulk of the mound (diam. c. 10m) lying intact to S of the wayleave. The route of the pipeline was altered to avoid the monument. A charcoal sample produced a radiocarbon date of 3955+/-45 BP (2580-2300 BC) which dates the site to the Late Neolithic. There is a burnt mound (MA112-115----) c. 120m to NE and a fulacht fia (MA112-117----) c. 100m to S. (Guinan 2015, 104, 106).
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 March 2016
References
Guinan, B. 2015 On the plains of Mayo. Archaeological discoveries on the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme Stage III: Claremorris-Knock-Ballyhaunis-Ballindine. Mayo County Council Archaeological Series 5. Castlebar.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.