Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballyjennings, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyjennings
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60354, -9.16475
- SMR number
- MA118-071003-
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 the NE quadrant of a cashel (SL118-071001-). This hut site encloses the opening to a souterrain (SL118-071002-). It was described in OPW Topographical Files (1983) as ‘a square enclosure (hut site) with an opening to a souterrain at its centre’ (SMR file). An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District recorded it as ‘Hut site 1: circular, (diam. 10.5m; H 0.6m) contains a souterrain’ (Lavelle, 1994).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 December 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.