Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Kilgarvan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarvan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09532, -9.02071
- SMR number
- MA040-030----
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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 pasture, located on top of a NNE−SSW ridge, close to the break of slope on the NW side. The location provides panoramic views across N Mayo, with Nephin Mountain and the Nephin Beg Range defining the skyline to W, and the long spine of the Ox Mountains at E−S.
Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Roughly oval mound (17m E−W; 13.7m N−S; H 0.8m at S, 1.7m at N) of earth and stones, largely sod-covered. It is gently domed in profile, with a somewhat flattened top (diam. c. 10-11m). The sloping sides are irregular or ragged in parts, with evidence of disturbance or quarrying at SSE. A field wall on a roughly E−W axis extends across the mound, slightly S of centre.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.