Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12995, -10.18805
- SMR number
- MA023-014032-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of Bailey beag mound (MA023-014031-).
Françoise Henry (1945, 140; House I) noted a ‘few erect slabs on the E side of the Bailey beag’, which she suggested were the remains of a house similar to those found on nearby Bailey Mór mound (MA023-014003-), and she added that ‘the contents of a hearth had slipped on the slope. Two pig-fibula pins were found amongst them.’ A rough cairn of stones (c. 3m N-S; c. 3m E-W; H 0.6-0.7m) now caps the summit of the mound, incorporating a few upright slabs, which may be in situ remnants of the house. It is likely, however, that many of the large slabs lying on the slopes of the mound derive from this house or other structures, which once stood on the mound and have collapsed downslope due to erosion.
National Monument in state ownership (no. 379).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 July 2023
References
Henry, F. 1945 Remains of the Early Christian Period on Inishkea North, Co. Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 75, 127-55.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Platformunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.