Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - boundary cairn
Glenlara (burrishoole By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenlara (burrishoole By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pile of Stones
- Coordinates
- 53.96833, -9.48788
- SMR number
- MA058-002----
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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
Situated on a precipitous mountain ridge. Not shown on the 1840-1 OS 6-inch map; on the1920 edition it is located on the line of the barony boundary and is named ‘Pile of Stones’. It consists of a low, circular cairn (diam. 2.6m; H 1.25m) of medium-sized stones, with a pyramidal-shaped profile. There is second boundary cairn (MA058-003----) c. 177m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 July 2015
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.