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Building

Island, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Island, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Island
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.78678, -8.80494
SMR number
MA093-017004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On the S shoreline of Island Lake, located c. 10m E of a possible castle (MA093-017002-), within a complex of earthworks (MA093-017001) associated with a moated site (MA093-017006-) and Island House, a fortified house (MA093-017003-).
There is now no trace at ground level of a building which Knox (1911, 332; ‘J’ on his plan) saw at roughly this location in the early 1900’s. Knox noted 'a rectangular trace of a stone building, 21 feet [6.4m] by 17 feet [5m], which from its position is likely to have been a gate-house of the bawn’ [of the possible castle (MA093-017002].'

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 1 July 2022

References

Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.

Nearby in the register

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

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