Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Slievemore, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievemore
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98786, -10.12950
- SMR number
- MA042-050----
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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, heather-covered upland bog, located on the lower SW-facing slope of a high ridge in NW of Achill Island. It stands in the lee of a low rise which slopes up to a small natural terrace. There is an area of worked bog c. 60m to S.
This consists of a subrectangular area (6.5m NW−SE; 5.5m NE−SW) defined by a drystone wall. The wall (H 0.6-0.8m) is roughly constructed of medium-large stones and boulders, and varies in width from 0.6m at E, 1m at W, to c. 1.4m wide at NW where the wall has a broad, almost buttress-like external slope. There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 1m) at S. The hut site is engulfed in heather, sedges and ferns.
The date and function of this hut site are uncertain; its appearance suggests it may be relatively late in date It may be one of six small rectilinear structures or enclosures (max. dims. c. 5-15), which are shown widely scattered (between 25-200m apart) across this area of bog on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, but are not shown on 1921 edition. It may have functioned as a booley hut, an animal pen, or even a temporary shelter for peat cutters. A similar hut site (MA042-048002-) and a structure (MA042-048002-) are located c. 100m to NE.
Images:
MA042-050----_01.jpg: Viewed from W
MA042-050----_02.jpg: Viewed from NE
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.