Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- 53.80259, -10.04081
- SMR number
- MA084-037----
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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
At the NW end of Clare Island, located on a rocky knoll in an open expanse of coastal commonage. High cliffs drop to the sea c. 200m to N.
This consists of a rough arc (3.5-4m N–S) of loose stones which may represent the W half of a circular hut site. It is poorly defined and largely sod-covered. Immediately to E is a field wall which describes an irregular, meandering arc (c. 35m N–S) across the E slope of the knoll; it is one of several relict field walls on the W, N and E slopes the knoll, which are part of an extensive field system (MA084-001001-) which spreads to W and S. A possible cairn (MA084-036----) is located 45m to S.
Notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.