Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
An Doirín, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Doirín
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89307, -9.96340
- SMR number
- MA065-038----
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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
Located in rough, heather-covered terrain, on a high mountain pass, straddling the townland boundary between Doeega and Dereen. Towards the E end of their extent, there are views over Achill Sound, with the distinctive silhoutte of Croagh Patrick visible in the distance.
A complex of approximately forty small bog-bound cairns are scattered along the mountain pass in a number of discrete clusters. The cairns consist of roughly circular piles of large and medium-sized stones and slabs. Some cairns support a plain upright slab.
In the oral tradition of the locality the cairns are associated with a funerary route between the settlements on the SW side of Achill and Cill Damhnait church (MA065-024001-) and burial ground (MA065-024002-) of on the eastern side of the Island.
Notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons
Attached images courtesy of Michael Gibbons
MA065-038----_01 Looking west
MA065-038----_02 Looking east
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.