Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
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
- 53.82497, -8.80467
- SMR number
- MA082-069----
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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, at the junction of three field walls, located just below the summit of a hill, close to a break of slope to SW, with good views.
A roughly circular, flat-topped mound of earth and stone (diam. c. 10m; H 0.6m at NE, 0.75m at SW), with a small heap of loose field clearance stone on top at NE. It is sod-covered and partly obscured by clumps of brambles and a few hawthorn bushes.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.