Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Gé Thuaidh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13669, -10.18975
- SMR number
- MA023-011003-
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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
On a broad low mound/sand hill in the machair plain on NE part of Inishkea North.
Indicated on the 1921 OS 6-inch map amongst a settlement cluster (MA023-011001-) of enclosures and houses, named ‘Turrows’. There is an enclosure (MA023-011002-) 4m to E, another enclosure (MA023-011006-) 35m to E and a row of three conjoined houses (MA023-011007- to MA023-011009-) 30m to SE.
The house (5.9m WNW–ESE; c. 3.8m NNE–SSW) appears to be subrectangular with rounded corners or roughly oval in plan. It is evident as a slightly raised area defined by sod-covered wall footings (Wth 0.9-1m).
The wall is evident as a low, grassy bank from which stones protrude randomly. A short length of internal wall face is exposed at the E end of the S wall, revealing three to four drystone courses (H 0.45-0.5m). The external wall face is reduced to a grassy slump.
A break mid-way along the S wall may be an entrance. Directly opposite this, in the N wall there is a poorly defined slump.
The interior of the house has an uneven grass-covered surface.
Attached images:
MA023-011003-_01.JPG House viewed from N
MA023-011003-_02.JPG House viewed from S
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.