Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Carrowkeel (Burrishoole By., Burrishoole Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (Burrishoole By., Burrishoole Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89887, -9.57236
- SMR number
- MA067-014004-
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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
Iron works in the possession of Burrishoole Dominican priory (MA067-014001-) were first recorded in 1580 when Sir Nicholas Malby, Governor of Connacht included them in a list of the abbey’s assets: ‘Specially it hath a very plentiful iron mine…’ (Knox 1908, 108). Samuel Lewis (1837) recorded that 'There are two large lakes in the parish called Lough Feagh and Lough Furnace, and on the narrow neck of land between these are the ruins of an old smelting furnace [MA067-045----]; there is also another at the old abbey '. The exact location of the abbey's iron works is uncertain.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 January 2022
References
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Knox, H.T. 1908 The History of the County of Mayo to the close of the 17th century. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.