Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Booley hut
Cregganroe, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregganroe
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73142, -9.73012
- SMR number
- MA096-034002-
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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 rough upland pasture, located on a relatively narrow terrace on the lower N facing slope of a rocky ridge, overlooking an expanse of boggy ground which stretches N from the base of the ridge. The ridge slope rises immediately to S, and falls away steeply to N of the hut. This is one of a cluster of booley huts (MA096-034001- to MA096-03400) associated with a field system (MA096-034----).
This booley hut consists of a subcircular area (int. diam. c. 3m) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6-0.7m; H 0.2m). The wall is poorly preserved, surviving only as low, gapped largely sod-covered ring of large and medium-sizedstones. There are two breaks (Wth 0.4-0.5) in the wall, one at E and one at W, either or both of which may have been an entrance.
Notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons
Attached images:
MA096-034002-_01.JPG Booley hut viewed from W
MA096-034002-_02.JPG Booley hut viewed from S
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.