Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - early medieval
Letterkeen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterkeen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00733, -9.55385
- SMR number
- MA046-004014-
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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
Located in the interior of a rath (MA046-004007). This possible house was excavated (E000015) in 1950 by Ó' Ríordáin and Mac Dermott (1950-1, 105-106). It consisted of a setting of stones forming an arc of a circle (max. cord. 4.5m) interpreted as possibly the wall-footings of a circular house. A carefully laid causeway or path of large flat stones led from this structure to the rath entrance.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 April 2019
References
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. and Mac Dermott, M. 1950-1 The excavation of a ringfort at Letterkeen, Co. Mayo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 54, 89-119
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.