Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Breastagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breastagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24653, -9.25370
- SMR number
- MA015-018002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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
Located adjacent to an ogham stone (MA015-018001-). When the ogham stones was discovery in the late 1800s, it was prostrate on the ground, lying ‘over what seem to be grave’, visible as a ‘slight elevation marked by lines of stones, lying north and south’ (Ferguson 1870-9, 201-206). A cavity at the S end of the grave was identified as the socket in which the ogham stone once stood. No other details of this possible grave were recorded. There is a wedge tomb (MA015-017----) c. 300m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 November 2018
References
Ferguson, S. 1874 On a recently discovered ogham inscription at Breastagh, in County Mayo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 15, 201-6.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.