Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Breaghwy (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breaghwy (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.09008, -9.11010
- SMR number
- MA039-128----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough, damp pasture, close to a natural spring now diverted into an underground pipe. A road borders the E side of the field. Low, sod-covered horseshoe-shaped mound (15.5m N-S; 8.5m E-W; H 0.4m) with a depression (Wth 5m) between the arms of the mound at SW, possibly indicating the position of a trough. There is a rath (MA039-030----) c. 90m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.