Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Craggagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craggagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82487, -9.08602
- SMR number
- MA080-043001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough upland pasture, on a mountain plateau with panoramic views S, W and N. Croagh Patrick looms in splendid isolation on the distant horizon to W, and the Nephin Beg Range defines the horizon at NNW. At NE ground rises to higher ridges. It is prominently sited on a low E-W spine of raised ground on the relatively level plateau.
Inspected in 1998, this possible ring-barrow consists of a gently domed grass-covered mound (6m E−W; 6.7m N−S; H 0.9m at N & S, 0.4m at E; o.6m at W) apparently of earthen construction. There is a shallow depression/hollow (4m NW−SE; 3m NE-SW) adjacent to the mound at SW.
An earlier report (NMI Topographical Files, undated) recorded this monument as follows: ‘Slightly damaged in spring in digging. It is c. 10m in diameter with a central low mound surrounded by a ditch and external bank.’ Another ring-barrow (MA080-043002-) is located 60m downslope to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.