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House - 18th/19th century

Elmhall, County Mayo, Ireland

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Townland
Elmhall
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Elmhall House in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Elmhall House (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.81184, -9.21559
SMR number
MA090-146----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, located on the E-facing slope of a N–S ridge on ground that falls gently towards the Manulla River. This was house was built in the early 18th-century by Gerald Cuff. It is said to have been burnt during the Rebellion of 1798, and is marked ‘in ruins’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Greatly ruined two storey house (int. 25m NW–SE; 12.8m NE–SW) of undressed limestone and red brick, approached from W by an avenue. (An archaeological Survey of the Belcarra area, Co. Mayo Survey. A Fás/Belcarra Community co-op project, 1988-89. Unpublished).

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 14 July 2015

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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