Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Bunnamohaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunnamohaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80211, -10.04062
- SMR number
- MA084-036----
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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
At the NW end of Clare Island, located on a small terrace, on the S-facing slope of a rocky knoll. High cliffs drop to the sea c. 200m to N. The terrace faces W and S, providing good views over a broad, open expanse of coastal commonage.
This is evident as a low, loose concentration (8-10m ESE–WNW; 2.5-3m NNE–SSW) of large stones, partly sod-bound. A few stones appear to be set, in particular a small arc (c. 2m across) of stones appended to the SW edge of the cairn. The nature of monument is uncertain; it appears to be a very ruined cairn, but it may be the remnants of hut site, or the remnants of a cairn which was reused as a hut site.
There is a possible hut site (MA084-037----) located 45m to N. Relict field walls, part of an extensive field system (MA084-001001-), are located close by on the W, N and E slopes the knoll. One wall, c. 40m to N, describes an irregular, meandering arc (c. 35m N–S) across the E slope of the knoll.
Notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 January 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.