Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Cloonnagashel, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnagashel
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pollnamarve or Grave of the Mary Burkes
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pollnamarve… (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.65118, -9.16222
- SMR number
- MA110-057----
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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
Formerly pasture, now in grounds of golf club, 500m NE of castle (MA110-056001-). O’Donovan (1838, 77) refers to a battle at Cloonagashel in 1592, in which Bingham defeated the Burkes and afterwards killed fifteen women, each named Mary Burke. No visible surface traces.
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. 669.
Date of upload: 30 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.