Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
Cahernamart, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernamart
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Monument
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79575, -9.51944
- SMR number
- MA088-033001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the SW-facing slope of a high ridge on the S edge of Westport town.
This monumental structure is indicated as ‘Monument’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and is recorded as follows in the OS Name Books for Co. Mayo (vol. 6, 121): ‘A remarkable hill called Monument Hill is S of the town of Westport. It has its name from a monument, or little heap of stones collected where a person was killed -at this place is a flag with an inscription.' It is not shown on later maps editions. There is no visible trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 October 2020
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.