Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Turlough (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turlough (Costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Coordinates
- 53.76994, -8.82768
- SMR number
- MA092-056----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a fairly level area on the SW-facing slope of a ridge.
Indicated as ‘Cromlech’ on the 1838 and 1917 OS 6-inch maps. Low, flat-topped, roughly circular grass-grown mound (diam. 6.3m; H 0.2m at NE, 0.7m at SW). A single large stone is visible at the edge of the mound at W and a prostrate stone protrudes from the top surface at N. Two hawthorn bushes grow on the SW side. DeValera and O' Nuallain (1964, 99) assessed this monument, noting that it was used as a dump for field clearance stone, and concluded that ‘It cannot on present evidence be accepted as the site of a megalithic tomb.’
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.