Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Poll Raithní (sweeney), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poll Raithní (sweeney)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93723, -9.91568
- SMR number
- MA055-018----
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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 peat banks on the shoreline of a small cove on the E side of Achill Sound. A drystone wall (Wth c. 3m; H 0.2-0.4m) composed of sandstone slabs (L 0.5-0.75m) and smaller cobbles (L c. 0.2-0.3m). It appears to be partly collapsed or slumped but is difficult examine as it is largely obscured by an accumulation of seaweed and modern rubbish. The wall appears to emerge from beneath an exposed peat bank (H 0.8m) and extends to SW for 13.9m, ending abruptly at the shoreline. Another wall (MA055--19----) lies c. 10m to W and there is a third wall (MA055-020----) c. 40m to W.
Compiled by Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3rd April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.