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House - medieval

Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - medieval, Inis Gé Thuaidh, 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
Inis Gé Thuaidh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.13223, -10.18866
SMR number
MA023-014011-

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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 the NW sector of the summit of Bailey Mór mound (MA023-014003-).
Françoise Henry (1945, 140; House F) recorded ‘an enormous heap of slabs’ at roughly this location, which she interpreted as the remains of a house of corbelled drystone or ‘beehive’ construction. She noted that ‘its roof may be practically intact, but other slabs have fallen from adjoining structures and made it impossible to clear an entrance…; there are at least two other houses [MA023-014010-; MA023-014012-] on both sides of it.’ (Ibid. 140). A cross-inscribed pillar (MA023-014023-) stands close to the location.
National Monument in state ownership (no. 379).

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 20 July 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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