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Hut site

Breaghwy (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Breaghwy, 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
Breaghwy (Tirawley By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.07447, -9.10426
SMR number
MA040-102----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 at the junction of field walls on a low N-S ridge.
Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature at the junction of three field boundaries; not shown on later map editions. Roughly square feature (7m E-W, c. 5-7m N-S) defined on E, S and W sides by a bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.7m) of earth and stone, and on the N side by a field wall. Another field wall on a N-S axis abuts the bank at the S. The function of this feature is unclear –it may be the remains of a small structure or hut. It is partly obscured by gorse and hawthorn. A rath (MA040-040----) and souterrain (MA040-040001-) are located 50m to N.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 12 June 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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