Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Frenchbrook South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frenchbrook South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56869, -9.14590
- SMR number
- MA121-192----
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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
At the S edge of a modern pasture field, located in lowlying ground overlooked immediately to N by a ridge. There is a spring-fed stream c. 12m to NW. A modern pump house stands to S of a field wall that truncates the S edge of the mound. Oblong mound (c. 10m E-W; c. 4-5m N-S; H 0.5-.6m at N), possibly originally horseshoe-shaped but truncated now at S by a later field wall. The mound is grass covered but appears to be composed of a concentration of limestone fragments in black soil. There is a cashel (MA121-024001-), an enclosure (MA121-024003-), and a ringbarrow (MA121-191----) c. 200m to N on top of the ridge.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.