Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Lurga Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurga Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pillar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pillar
- Coordinates
- 53.93590, -8.78921
- SMR number
- MA063-043002-
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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
In level pasture, adjacent to a holy well (MA063-043001-), c. 50m W of the Mullaghaghanoe River.
A small square feature, annotated ‘Pillar’ is shown on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps immediately to SSW of the holy well. No trace survives. According to local information, it consisted of a large, dry-stone structure, roughly square in cross-section. On top of it was a small stone slab (Wth 0.24m; H 0.3m) engraved with a simple cross with a triangular base, and the date 1767. The pillar/structure was dismantled when the well was refurbished in 1954 for the Marion Year, and the cross-engraved slab is now cemented into a modern shrine adjacent to the well.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.