Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Carrowbaun (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbaun (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84361, -8.80631
- SMR number
- MA082-065----
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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 gentle N-facing ridge slope with good views, including Nephin Mountain visible on the skyline to NW.
Remnants of a wedge tomb consisting of a low, sod-covered sub-rectangular mound (c. 8m NE–SW; c. 5m NW–SE; H 0.5-0.8m), from which several large upright stones/ortostats (Wth c. 0.6m; H c. 0.6m; T c. 0.3m) protrude. A double row of orthostats borders the NW side of the mound, and a perpendicular upright slab forms a facing on the NE side: these appear to represent the NE end of a gallery on a NE−SW axis. The mound is crossed by an E–W field fence. There are raths (MA082-006----; MA082-007----) 250m to WNW and c. 170m to NNW, respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.