Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Devenish Island, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Devenish Island
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62462, -9.32847
- SMR number
- MA117-060----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 ground sloping to N, at N tip of island. Low dry-stone moss covered structure (8.4m x 5.4m), subrectangular in shape. Divided into two rooms by low wall (Wth 0.6m). W of structure is circular stone-lined depression (Wth 2m; D 1m). NE is subrectangular area (13.4m x 10.8m) enclosed by dry-stone wall (H 0.6m).
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. 615.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.