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Monumental structure

Garrankeel, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Monumental structure, Garrankeel, 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
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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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

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

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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