Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Island, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Island
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78252, -8.80727
- SMR number
- MA093-080----
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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 a modern rectangular field, on a NE-facing slope
Not shown on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Recorded in an aerial photograph (GSI M 552 -3; Roll 217, pr. 22; SMR file).
A section of road defined by two parallel banks (Wth 1.8-2.3m; H 0.2-0.5m) set 13m apart. The banks appear as low, sod-covered rises or scarps, with a few stones protruding in parts. The intervening space/road surface is grassed over. The road can be traced for c. 150m on a NE–SW axis extending through the centre of a modern rectangular field.
According to local tradition this is a remnant of a long avenue that led to Island House (MA093-017003-). At its SW end it connected the house with a public road leading to the Ballyhaunis town.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.