Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Carrowcanada, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcanada
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92370, -8.93109
- SMR number
- MA072-130----
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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
In pasture, overlooked to WNW by a knoll, with rising ground also to NW–W. There are good views over an expanse of lowlying pasture to S.
This cairn is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a sod-covered, oblong mound of stones (5.6m NNE–SSW; 3.6m WNW–ESE; H 0.6-0.7m). According to local tradition, it is a burial site and is associated in legend with the two bowl barrows (MA062-093001-; MA062-093002-), which are located on top a ridge in Kilbride townland c. 1.5km to NNE. There is a rath (MA072-006----) 130m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.