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Cairn - wayside cairn

An Doirín, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - wayside cairn, An Doirín, 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
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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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

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

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

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