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Burial ground

Derrynamuck (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Derrynamuck, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Derrynamuck (Tirawley By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.07230, -9.19616
SMR number
MA039-126----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the SW corner of a pasture field, located on level ground at the base of the E-facing slope of a ridge. There is a lake, Lough Alick, 225m to W, the outflow stream of which is 100m to N.
A slightly raised area (26m E-W; 26.5m N-S), roughly square in plan with rounded corners, defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m, at NE). The bank is low and degraded, best preserved at NE. At S the bank is incorporated into a later field fence, which curves slightly. The interior is level and grass-covered. According to local tradition, this enclosure was used as a burial ground; no graves are visible. A disused trackway, leading to a ruined vernacular stone cottage at SW, skirts the W side of the enclosure.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 7 April 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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