Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Dubhoileán Mór, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dubhoileán Mór
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07430, -10.16906
- SMR number
- MA033A005----
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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 rough pasture of heather and grass, located on a natural rise 16m SE of a cashel (MA033A003001-) in the centre of Duvillaun More island, and 70m SE of a cluster of ruined 19-century houses.
This anomalous stone group consists of a narrow box-like setting of stones. The long sides are formed by a pair of parallel upright slabs, aligned E-W, set 0.4m apart. The north slab (L 0.9m; T .007m; H 0.89m) is the largest. The S slab is of similar length, but is shorter and roughly triangular in shape. It leans toward the N slab. Two smaller stones, one at either end of the larger slabs, and set perpendicular to them, complete the box-like effect. Another stone (L 0.68m; H 0.47m), aligned N-S, abuts the W end of the N slab. The function and date of this feature is unclear. It is located within a system of small fields enclosing cultivation ridges, which are associated with the 19th-century settlement on the island.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.