TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Barrow - unclassified

Island, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, 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
Hachured
Coordinates
53.77347, -8.79961
SMR number
MA093-038002-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In gently undulating grassland, crowning the summit of a hill, close to a break of slope on the NE side where there is a steep and abrupt fall of ground. The hill affords extensive views that encompass Croagh Patrick on the far horizon to W and Nephin to NW. It overlooks a pool, now an area of boggy ground, which is located at the base of the slope c. 150m to SE. The pool is named ‘Loughsheebaun’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map.
A slightly raised circular area (10m N–S; 10.3m E–W) defined by a raised rim (ext. H 0.8m at N, 0.6m at S) that slumps seamlessly into a concave interior (diam. 2.8m). An ogham stone (MA093-038002-) is set in the NE edge of the hollow. There is a low berm-like extension (Wth c. 1m; H 0.2m) at the external base of the barrow on the NE–E side. Another barrow (MA093-096----) is located c. 200m to NNE.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 23 June 2022

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Barrow - unclassified in Mayo All County Mayo records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map