Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Croaghaun East, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croaghaun East
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18858, -9.44829
- SMR number
- MA020-003----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
It is located in rough boggy rush-grown ground bordered on its W side by the curving course of the S-flowing Owenmore River. Immediately to W of the river, ground rises in a steep natural scarp to a plateau of blanket bog. Roughly square, flat-topped mound (10m N–S; 9m E–W) defined around the perimeter by a low scarp (H 1m at W; 0.5-0.6m at E) from which stones protrude in parts. The mound is covered in grass, and small clumps of rushes and heather. According to local information, it was used as a burial ground. A single row (L 1.55m E–W) of low, close-set stones (max. W c. 0.5m; H 0.2-0.3m), which protrudes from the surface on the E half of the mound, may mark a grave. The traditional name for the area is ‘Crockmhairedheas’ (spelling uncertain) (pers. comm. Liam Heffron, 2014).
Attached images:
MA020-003----_01 shows burial ground viewed fom E.
MA020-003----_02 shows a possible grave viewed from W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 November 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.