Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carha (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carha (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13728, -9.03931
- SMR number
- MA031-011001-
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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
Encompassing a natural rise, which offers panoramic views, with the Ox Mountains defining the far horizon from E−NW, and Nephin Mountain looming at SW. It overlooks an expanse of flat wettish pasture, where a (MA031-010----), now levelled, is located c. 50m to SW.
This monument is not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map, but it is shown on the 1922 edition as a circular hachured area, with a standing stone (MA031-011002-) in the centre. It is evident as a domed rise or hillock (c. 30m E−W; c. 20m N−S), with steeply sloping sides on the W half and a more gradual slope at E. A scarp (Wth. 1.2m; H 0.45m) is cut into the base of the slope at N−NE. Remnants of a low scarp (H 0.3-0.4m) defines the flat top of the hillock NE−SW, giving it the appearance of a platform (diam. c. 6m), on which the standing stone is located slightly off-centre to S.
This may be a natural hillock, which has been modified to form a setting for the standing stone. It is partly obscured by gorse and bramble.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.