Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Killoveeny, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoveeny
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77860, -8.88653
- SMR number
- MA092-044----
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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 improved pasture, on a SW-facing slope. According to local information, a possible cist or boulder burial at roughly this location was destroyed during land reclamation (SMR file 1990). There is no visible trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 March 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.