Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Elmhall, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- 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----
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
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 Unpublished).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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.