Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
Garrankeel, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrankeel
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monument
- Coordinates
- 54.13247, -9.14178
- SMR number
- MA030-037----
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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
Located in mixed woodland, formerly part of the Belleek Castle estate, close to the W bank of the River Moy.
This monument was commissioned by Charles James Knox (1835-1924) as a memorial to his father, Sir Francis Arthur Knox-Gore, Baronet and Lord Lieutenant of Sligo (1803-1873), who built the manor house, Belleek Abbey, located 150m to NW.
An elaborate cut-limestone, gothic-style structure crowns the summit of a substantial circular, flat-topped earthen mound (diam. c. 23m; top 10m; H 3.7m). The mound is enclosed at its base by a fosse (Wth at base 4m) with external bank (Wth 10.3m; int. H 2-2.5m; ext. H 1m). Steps have been cut into the slope of the mound at the SSE providing access to the top. At E-SE the outer bank has been incorporated into the line of an unpaved forest pathway. The large size of the mound gave rise to a local legend that Knox-Gore's favourite horse was buried here.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.