Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
An Tinbhear, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Tinbhear
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24099, -9.87545
- SMR number
- MA010-040----
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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 pasture, located c. 5m from the eastern shore of Broadhaven Bay in Inver townland. The land rises to the NE. Good views from SW-N of Broadhaven Bay and the Mullet peninsula. Sub-circular grass-covered mound (diam. c. 8m N–S; H up to 2m). The flat summit of the mound is enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 0.3-1m; H 0.3m). (Pers. comm. Richard Crumlish, August 2014).
Photo (courtesy of Richard Crumlish) shows mound from NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 August 2014
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.