Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Inis Gluaire, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Gluaire
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20811, -10.12002
- SMR number
- MA016-021----
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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
Visible in section in the eroding, vertical land-edge scarp on the SE shoreline of Inishglora.
A possible pit (Wth 0.4-0.8m; D 0. 35-0.4m) is visible approximately mid-way along the length of a midden layer (MA016-020----), at a point where the midden appears thin and insubstantial. The exact relationship of the pit to the midden is unclear; it certainly cuts into the clean sand layer beneath the midden. The pit appeared to be squarish in cross- section, filled with dark brown, charcoal-flecked sandy soil, with two large stones, lying horizontally, one above the other at the upper E side of the fill. A number of displaced human bones were noted in August 2016 lying exposed on the ground surface at the base of the section face.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.