Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Kilquire Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquire Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60010, -9.12536
- SMR number
- MA118-082001-
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pastureland. An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District records a bawn wall (H 0.8m) enclosing sub-rectangular area (48.6 N-S; 43.1m E-W) (Lavelle 1994, 102, no. 696). In the SW quadrant of the bawn are the remains of an unclassified castle (MA118-082----).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.