Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
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
- 53.92391, -8.84633
- SMR number
- MA072-108----
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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 undulating pasture, on top of a hill; now within the area of a commercial quarry.
When inspected in 1997, this monument consisted of a roughly circular sod-covered stone cairn (diam. 5m; H 0.5-0.75m), with a central hollow (diam. 2m, D 0.2m). Remnants of a slightly sunken trackway, indicated on 1838 OS map, lay immediately to SW of the cairn.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.