Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Cartron (Costello By., Kilbeagh Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (Costello By., Kilbeagh Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95242, -8.84651
- SMR number
- MA062-146----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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
This field is known locally as ‘Muileann Iarn’ (iron mill) and suggests the former presence of a metal-working site here. There formerly were ‘holes or round openings’ in the field which the landowner’s father had filled in to improve the land. A number of pieces of slag were recovered from a field c. 440m to the NE (ITM coordinates 544754, 800975) in 2003: these are considered to have come from a blast furnace and are in the National Museum of Ireland (pers. comm. A. Halpin). There are no structures or features indicated on the OS 1st. ed. 6-inch map (surveyed 1837) in this field which would suggest that the site had long been abandoned by the early 19th century: the possibility that it dates to the 17th century cannot be ruled out.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 5 November 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.