Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Bracklaghboy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bracklaghboy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Laghtaconor
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghtaconor
- Coordinates
- 53.77685, -8.78838
- SMR number
- MA093-039----
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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 pasture, in gently undulating terrain dotted with small hillocks. It is situated towards the base of the WNW-facing slope of a rise, bordering the edge of a natural depression which is encircled by rising ground and small hillocks. Views are restricted.
Named ‘Laghtaconor’ on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps, and recorded as ‘Druid’s Altar’ in the 1838 OS Name Books. A circular mound (5.6m E–W; 6.2m N–S; H 0.7m at W, 0.4m upslope side at E) with a gently domed profile. It appears to be predominantly earthen. A single hawthorn bush grows from N side, at the base of which is a small heap of field clearance stones. A similar heap of stones rests against the S side of the mound.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.