Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Bunacrower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunacrower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62469, -9.13459
- SMR number
- MA118-039001-
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
In An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District this bawn is recorded as an irregular-shaped area defined with sod-covered foundations just visible above ground level. There is a tower house (MA118-039----) in the NW sector. (Lavelle 1994, 106-107, no. 706)
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 November 2013
References
Lavelle, D. 1994 An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.