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Hut site

Acaill Bheag, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Acaill Bheag, 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
Acaill Bheag
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hut
Coordinates
53.86642, -9.96472
SMR number
MA075-001004-

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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

Built into a berm in the enclosing defenses of a promontory fort (MA075-001003-). This hut site was first recorded by Westropp (1911, 31; 1914, 314) who described it as ‘an early oval hut 27 feet [c. 8m] north and south, and 32 feet [c. 10m] east and west, the walls 6 to 10 feet [c. 2-3m] thick’. Casey (1999, 97-100) found ‘the remains of a low circular structure, 9m in internal diameter and many slabs lying about the interior of this enclosure suggest it was of stone.’

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 7 August 2015

References

Casey, M. 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Westropp T. J. 1911 Notes on the larger cliff-forts of the west coast of County Mayo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29, 11-33

Westropp, T.J. 1914 The promontory forts and early remains of the islands of Connacht. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 297-337.

Nearby in the register

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

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