Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
An Toileán Rua, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Toileán Rua
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20481, -9.79957
- SMR number
- MA018-012----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Three rectangular houses are shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map in the N half of the island. Noone (1991, 108) recorded that 'At the north eastern end of the island are the ruins of about six dwellings of stone and mortar which contained two apartments of equal size.' The island is densely covered in fern which conceals the remains. The best preserved house (c. 11m NW–SE; 3m NE–SW; Wall T 0.5m, H 0.8m) at ITM 482599 829927 has a slightly sunken interior and a break/doorway (Wth 1.8m) in the middle of the SW wall, and another break (Wth 1m) in the NE wall. It appears to date to the 19th-century.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 January 2016
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.