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House - indeterminate date

Ballyglass Middle, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Ballyglass Middle, 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
Ballyglass Middle
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.71179, -8.72633
SMR number
MA103-039001-

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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 pasture, close to the break of slope on the N side of a ridge, c. 200m from the Mayo-Roscommon border. Good views to N and E, but restricted to SE by the rising brow of the ridge.
Circular platform (diam. 10m) defined by a bank (Wth 4.2m at S, 3.8m at N; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.6m at S, 0.8m at N). The bank has a low internal rim, merging almost seamlessly with a slightly sunken interior, creating a saucer-shaped profile. The platform, now ringed with hazel and hawthorn trees, is constructed of stony/gravelly soil, and is compact and well preserved. An external fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.5m) was noted during an earlier inspection (SMR file: OPW field notes 1978), but is no longer obvious.
This monument may be a circular house, possibly associated with a rath (MA103-040001-) which is located 100m to NW; alternatively, it may be the remains of a barrow. Another possible house (MA103-039002-), now levelled, is located c. 20m to E.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 11 November 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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