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Booley hut

Cregganroe, County Mayo, Ireland

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Townland
Cregganroe
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73098, -9.72687
SMR number
MA096-034010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 terrace on the N facing slope of a rocky ridge, overlooking an expanse of boggy ground which stretches N from the base of the ridge. Ground falls away gently to E towards a NNW-flowing stream.
A rough semicircular arc (c. 5m E–W) of low, close-set moss-covered stones may represent the N half of a circular booley hut or small enclosure. The remains are exiguous, and the interpretation is tentative. There is a possible enclosure 10m to N, and a booley hut 50m to S. These are associated with a field system (MA096-034----) and a cluster of booley huts (MA096-034001- to MA096-034010-).

Attached images:
MA096-034010-_01.JPG Possible enclosure viewed from N

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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