Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Drumbaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75023, -8.77096
- SMR number
- MA103-057----
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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
A cairn was noted here in the early 1990’s. When the location was inspected in 1998, it was found that extensive quarrying for sand and gravel had taken place; there is now no visible trace of a cairn.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.