Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Dún Ceartáin Nó Gleann An Ghad, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dún Ceartáin Nó Gleann An Ghad
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 54.27868, -9.82524
- SMR number
- MA004-013----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 Dooncarton or Glengad townland, located in a narrow strip of coastal pasture, 400m S of a rocky shoreline bordering the SE side of Broad Haven Bay. A smaller sandy estuarine bay, Sruwaddacon Bay, which opens into the E side of Broad Haven Bay, is immediately NE, beyond which Benwee Head and Knockdaff are visible on the skyline. The good pastureland ends abruptly 80m to S where land rises to rough mountainous terrain.
Indicated on the 1912 OS 6-inch map as 'Stone circle'. Level circular area (diam. 4.85m) defined by seven irregularly-shaped upright boulders, ranging in size from H 0.62m; Wth 0.33m; T 0.1m to H 1.32m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.31m. An eighth stone, at NE, has fallen and is now largely grass-covered. A fallen rectangular block, possibly an outlier, lies c. 16m to NW. There is a court tomb (MA004-012----) 120m to W.
Attached images are courtesy of Richard Crumlish:
MA004-013----_01.JPG Stone circle viewed from SW
MA004-013----_02.JPG Stone circle viewed from SE
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.