Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Glaspatrick, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glaspatrick
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76013, -9.66066
- SMR number
- MA087-044007-
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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
Located on the summit of Croagh Patrick, c. 10m N of the NW end of an enclosure (MA087-044006-) which occupies the summit plateau. It is one of a cluster of hut sites (MA087-044009-), located at the NW end of the summit.
It consists of a circular area (diam. 5m) defined by a collapsed stone wall (H 0.2m). The N half of the hut site was excavated (94E0115) in 1995 (Walsh, 1996; Morahan, 2001, 20). In the interior, a shallow peaty layer (D 0.15m), incorporating a spread of charcoal, overlay naturally occurring rock outcrop and scree. A fragment of a chert flake, a minute fragment of bronze and a modern penny were found within the charcoal layer. Another excavated hut site (MA087-044008-) is located c. 100m to WSW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 March 2020
References
Morahan, L. 2001 Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo. Archaeology, landscape and people. The Croagh Patrick Archaeological Committee, Westport, Co. Mayo.
Walsh, G. (1996) 224. 'Croagh Patrick', Glaspatrick/Teevenacroagh, Mayo. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1995: Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland. Bray. 67-68 (224). Bray, Wordwell Ltd.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.