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
- 53.93720, -9.91631
- SMR number
- MA055-020----
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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 short length (L 3.5m E–W) of drystone field wall (Wth 1.2m; H 0.6m) is visible emerging from an eroded break in the peat banks which border the shore. Another wall (MA055--19----) lies c. 10m to E and there is a third wall (MA055-018----) c. 40m to E.
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.