Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Drumaderry, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumaderry
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72688, -8.81101
- SMR number
- MA103-075----
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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
In pasture, located on the summit of a broad hillock with panoramic views over a gently undulating landscape of grassland, with expanses of bog to W.
This mound is not depicted on the 1838 and 1916 editions of the OS 6-inch maps where the location is indicated as a trigonometrical station. It occupies a narrow space at the junction of two field fences. Roughly oval mound (8.6m E–W; 4.7m N–S; H 2.5m at E, 1.4m at W) of gravelly earth, with a narrow flat top (Wth 1m) and a steep curving slope at NE–E. Stones protrude from the top of the mound. The mound may originally have been circular but appears to have been truncated at NW and S by field fences. The fence at NW borders a disused sunken trackway.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.