Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Turlough (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turlough (Costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77486, -8.84276
- SMR number
- MA092-106----
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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, in an expanse of level wet, boggy ground, overlooked by a ridge to S. An E−W road borders the S side of the field a few meters to S of the mound.
A sod-covered, roughly horseshoe-shaped mound (11.6m N–S; 8m E–W; H 0.45m at S, 0.6m at N) with a shallow depression at NE between the arms of the mound, which probably indicates the location of a trough. The mound is composed of characteristically angular heat-shattered stones in black, charcoal-rich peaty soil. An old field drain clips the SW edge of the mound.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.