Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pump
Errew (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Errew (Tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05399, -9.28518
- SMR number
- MA038-127----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 pasture, located on a gentle NE-facing slope, overlooking Lough Conn which is 250m to NE.
Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 25-inch plan and on the 1922 OS 6-inch edition as a hachured circle, with a small oblong feature at its centre. On the 25-inch plan it is annotated ‘Pump’.
It consists of a flat-topped earthen platform (diam. 10.6m) defined by a scarp. The scarp is low (H 0.3m at SW) on the SW half; it is stone-faced and more substantial (H 1.5m at NE) on the NE half where it is cut into the natural slope. A deep, stone-faced shaft is sunk into the centre of the platform, above which is mounted an iron pump wheel and gears. This is a post-1700 water-pump. It was associated with a building, located 140m to SW, which is indicated as ‘Errew House (hotel) on the 25-inch plan, and as ‘Convent’ on the later 1922 OS 6-inch edition.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.