Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Carra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ford
- Coordinates
- 53.72463, -9.27478
- SMR number
- MA099-016----
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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
On NE shore of Lough Carra, joining Church Island to mainland. Stone causeway (L 78m) of dump construction, extends (L 37m; Wth 1.1m) across lake bed (rising above water level) to island where it continues (L 41m; 1.8m) across land in zigzag pattern. It ends at opening in stone wall. Portion on lake has recently been widened (Wth 3.2m) but original outline is easily recognisable.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 78.
Date of upload: 22 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.