Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Lough Conn, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Conn
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ford
- Coordinates
- 54.05984, -9.22199
- SMR number
- MA039-069----
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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
Located in the NE end of Lough Conn.
This causeway is indicated on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a band of relatively dry ground (Wth 50-80m N-S) extending c. 120m E–W from the mainland to the E shoreline of Annaghroe Island. It is depicted on the 25-inch plan and the 1930 OS 6-inch maps as stony, and is annotated ‘Sand & Shingle’ on the 25-inch plan. On both the 25-inch and the 1930 6-inch maps a track or road, indicated by parallel dashed lines, is shown continuing from a mainland road across the neck of dry ground to the island; on the 25-inch plan the track/road is annotated as ‘Causeway’ and on the 1930 map as ‘Ford’; the route the track/road takes is different on the two maps. This appears to be a natural feature, a bar of sand or gravel, which has at various times in the past provided a natural route-way to the island. A modern track/road now extends across it from the mainland, leading to a house on the island. There is no visible evidence of an ancient, built causeway.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.