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Habitation site

Inis Gé Theas, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Habitation site, Inis Gé Theas, 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 Theas
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.10830, -10.22791
SMR number
MA023-033001-

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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 stone-strewn machair, on the SE side of Inishkea South, close to a cobble storm beach on a rocky shoreline.
A low, grass-covered flat-topped sand mound (c. 20m NNW-SSW; c. 15m ENE−WSW) with quite well defined, broadly slumped slopes at W−N; at E the mound grades down gradually and is overlain on its E edge by a later N−S drystone field wall. The field wall, now ruined, encloses one of a number of small subrectangular field plots, which extend to E of the mound –these appear to be late in date.
A cluster of large upright stone slabs protrude from the W edge of the mound –possibly part of a structure, and several slabs lie prostrate on the surface, partly embedded in the sod. A midden (MA023-033002-) is intermittently exposed in the W edge of the mound.
Another possible habitation site (MA023-032001-) and midden (MA023-032002-) are located to c. 30m to S.

Attached images:
MA023-033001-_01.JPG viewed from NW
MA023-033001-_02.JPG viewed from NW

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 28 July 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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