Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Carn (Kilmaine By., Ballinrobe Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (Kilmaine By., Ballinrobe Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.60996, -9.25500
- SMR number
- MA118-053----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, enclosed by stone field fence. Oval-shaped cairn (diam. 57m N-S; H 9m) delimited at the base by twenty-one boulders. Dug into in many places, cairn material may have been used in the surrounding stone fence (SL118-053001-).
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. 29.
Date of upload: 22 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.