Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Foghill, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foghill
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26763, -9.24192
- SMR number
- MA015-068001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a slight elevation in coastal pasture, overlooking Lackan Bay.
This cairn is not indicated on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a grass-grown, roughly D-shaped mound (11.5m N-S; 5.7m E-W; H 0.9m), bordered on the straight side at E by a N−S field fence. Disturbance of the mound, particularly along its NW−N edge, reveals that it is composed of a concentration of small to medium-sized stones. Two hollows suggest areas of infilled subsidence. Two irregular-shaped heaps of earth and stone on the SW edge of the mound appeared to have been dumped there relatively recently. The cairn is sited on top of a low rise (c. 13m E-W; c. 24m N-S). According to local information, the cairn overlies a souterrain (MA015-068002-). There is a rath (MA015-003001-) 140m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.