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Cairn - boundary cairn

Glenlara (Burrishoole By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - boundary cairn, Glenlara, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glenlara (Burrishoole By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Pile of Stones
Coordinates
53.96699, -9.48638
SMR number
MA058-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated on a precipitous mountain ridge. Not shown on the 1840-1 OS 6-inch map; on the1920 edition it is shown located on the line of the barony boundary and is named ‘Pile of Stones’. Low, irregularly-shaped cairn (2.9m NNW-SSE; 2.6m ENE-WSW; H 0.9m) of medium-sized stones. There is second boundary cairn (MA058-002----) c. 177m to NW.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 July 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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