Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Barnalyra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnalyra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91172, -8.85060
- SMR number
- MA072-085----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a rise. There is a derelict farmstead at the base of the slope c. 25m to E.
A gallery, oriented roughly E−W, defined on the N side by four and on the S side by five close-set upright stones or orthostats. A large stone lies at the E end and another at the W end. Another upright stone, aligned N−S, is located a few meters to S of the W end of the gallery. The gallery is surrounded by stony mound or cairn (c. 14m NE−SW; c. 8m NW−SE), now engulfed in hawthorn and brambles. A field wall skirts W side of the cairn.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.