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Ross (Gardiner), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Ross (Gardiner), County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ross (Gardiner)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.22998, -9.22146
SMR number
MA015-089----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In pasture, located on a low, level elevation, bordered to W and N by wet pasture and overlooked c. 100m to N by a ridge of higher ground. Located at the S end of a broad peninsula of pasture and sand dunes that extends N into Kilalla Bay and is bordered to W by the estuary of the Palmerstown River.
This building is not shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch map. When first recorded in 2010 it consisted of a low, grass-covered sub-rectangular platform (c. 12-14m NNE-SSW; c. 10m WNW–ESE) defined on the W and S sides by a contiguous setting of large stones, which appeared to represent wall footings. It was subsequently levelled during land reclamation activities.
According to local tradition, there was castle in this area. A field across the road immediately to S, now an expanse of featureless pasture, has traditionally been known as the ‘Castle field’, possibly associated with a castle (MA015-065001-) and settlement (MA015-065002-), which is listed in the Stafford Inquisition of Co. Mayo as "...the castle, town and lands of Rosse commonly called Rosse Mc Paddin..." (O'Sullivan (ed.) 1958, 153).

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 December 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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