Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Roosky (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roosky (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03071, -9.08500
- SMR number
- MA049-162----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
Located in flat pasture, in the NW corner of a modern subrectangular field, bordered on the N side by a coniferous forestry plantation. The long spine of the Ox Mountains define the horizon to SE.
This monument is evident as a broad low, grass-covered subcircular mound (21m NE–SW; H 0.75m at SW, 1m at NE). It is very gently domed in profile, with a rather flattened top, grading seamlessly into broadly sloping sides. The N half of the mound is grass-covered, with small to medium-sized stones protruding randomly from the sod, and a greater density of stones visible on the perimeter at N–NE. The S–SE half of the mound is obscured by an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn scrub; stones are visible scattered across the surface beneath the scrub. According to local tradition, the mound is known as a burial site.
Attached images:
MA049-162----_01.JPG Viewed from E
MA049-162----_02.JPG Viewed from N
MA049-162----_03.JPG Viewed from NW
MA049-162----_014JPG Viewed from S
Notified to NMS by Gerry Walsh.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.