Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Kildun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98882, -9.83976
- SMR number
- MA044-009006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on an ENE facing slope overlooking an inlet of Blacksod Bay. Included in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a record published by Moran (1942, 149) who recorded a circular building (diam. c. 12m; wall T c. 0.9m) located ‘just to the west’ of a rectangular building (MA044-009005-) and c. 90m to NW of a burial ground (MA0044-009001-) and cross-inscribed pillar (MA044-009002-). Field inspection in 1997 determined that the building is a ruined vernacular structure used as an animal shelter.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.