Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Inis Gé Theas, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Gé Theas
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Thurrows
- Coordinates
- 54.12277, -10.20699
- SMR number
- MA023-019----
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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
In a shallow, wind-eroded sandy hollow c. 0.7-1m below the level of the flat expanse of machair which stretches to W. At E, ground slopes down very gradually towards a beach which fringes the shoreline. There is a stream 30m to SW.
Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch maps; marked as ‘Thurrows’ on the 1921 edition. The nature of this monument is very uncertain. The remains are exiguous and difficult to interpret; they may be the remnants of a house similar to the one (MA023-018001-) located 70m to NNE.
A tall upright slab (H 1.8m; Wth 0.37m NW-SE; T 0.24m), which tapers to a narrow top, is deeply embedded in the ground, with a low upright slab ( H 0.35m; Wth 0.36m; T 0.05m) 1.4m to NE. The latter has a jagged top suggesting that it was originally taller but was broken in the past. A large prostrate slab (L 0.84m; Wth 0.41; T 0.13m) 0.88m to ESE may originally have stood upright. Another low upright slab (L 0.4m E−W; T 0.1m; H 0.18m) is located c. 5m ESE of the tall upright. These earth-fast slabs are surrounded by a surface spread of loose medium-sized cobbles and stones with no obvious structure or pattern, probably scattered here by wave action.
Attached images:
MA023-019----_01.JPG Viewed from S
MA023-019----_02.JPG Viewed from N
MA023-019----_03.JPG Viewed from W
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.