Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Carrowleagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowleagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13391, -8.97380
- SMR number
- MA031-034----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
See linked document (MA031-034----_01.pdf) with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964)
Attached images:
MA031-034----_01.JPG opening to gallery viewed from E
MA031-034----_02.JPG interior of gallery looking towards the backstone
MA031-034----_03.JPG outline of cairn, marked by grass and dry fern litter
Date of revised upload: 5 June 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.