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
- 53.60324, -9.16482
- SMR number
- MA118-071005-
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 SE quadrant of a cashel (SL118-071001-). This hut site was described in OPW Topographical Files (1983) as ‘a small, rectangular hut site just inside the wall on the SE.’ (SMR file). An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District recorded it as follows: ‘Hut site 3: 18m S of 2 [SL118-071004-], rectangular in shape (7.4m N-S; 6.2m E-W) ajoined to cashel wall by two low, linear stone walls.’ (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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.