Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Scregg (costello By., Aghamore Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scregg (costello By., Aghamore Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83124, -8.80242
- SMR number
- MA082-066----
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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, located on the narrow top of a knoll, with a steep fall of ground on the SW–W and a more gently slope to E. The knoll provides good views in all directions, but is overlooked by a ridge to S.
A sod-covered, roughly circular, stony mound or cairn (diam. 10.5m; H 0.85m at E, 0.75m at W) with a rather flattened top. Stones protrude randomly from beneath the sod. According to local tradition, it is known as ‘Crucalachta’.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.