Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Drumsheen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsheen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11391, -9.00477
- SMR number
- MA031-063001-
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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 average pasture, on the narrow top of a N–S ridge, with extensive views in all directions of the surrounding sharply undulating terrain of mixed pasture and bog. There is a stream c. 100m to E, beyond which there are expanses of bog, with the Ox Mountains defining the far horizon.
A sod-covered mound (5.3m N–S; 6.7m E-W; H 1.3m) of earth and stone, roughly oblong in plan, with a flat top. The W end of the mound is rounded or curving; the E end is poorly defined and broadly slumped. An upright slab (H 0.8m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.2m) tapering to a narrow point at top, with long axis E-W, is set deeply in the flat top of the mound. A denuded section of the mound on N side revealed a basal layer (D 0.3m) of orange, sandy silt with some small stones, above which the mound is composed of grey-brown, stony soil. A large boulder is incorporated into the N side of the mound, and a hawthorn bush grows from the base of the slope. A field wall on an E-W axis lies immediately to N. A standing stone (MA031-063----) is located 1.4m to E of the mound.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.