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Booley hut

Cregganroe, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Booley hut, Cregganroe, 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
Cregganroe
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73177, -9.72801
SMR number
MA096-034006-

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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

In rough upland pasture, located on the N facing slope of a rocky ridge, overlooking an expanse of boggy ground which stretches N from the base of the ridge. This is one of a cluster of booley huts (MA096-034001- to MA096-034010-) associated with a field system (MA096-034----).
This booley hut consists of a subcircular area (2.5-3m N–S; 2-2.5m E–W) enclosed by a roughly constructed drystone wall (Wth 0. 8-1m; H 0.3-0.5m). There is a gap (Wth 0.5-0.6m) at E, partly filled with stone tumble, and a similar gap at W, either of which could be the original entrance. The W wall of the hut merges with the N–S field wall. Immediately to N of the hut there is a small enclosed space (3.5m N–S; 2.5m E–W). It is bounded by the wall of the hut at S, by the N–S field wall at W, by a large natural boulder at NE and by rough walling at E-SE –it may have served as an ancillary shelter or storage space for the booley hut. The S wall of the booley hut is conjoined to the N wall of a possible booley hut (MA096-034007-).

Notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons

Attached images:
MA096-034006-_01.JPG Booley hut viewed from E
MA096-034006-_02.JPG Booley hut viewed from S

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 19 December 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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