Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ballymartin, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymartin
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58588, -9.14090
- SMR number
- MA118-110003-
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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
Located in the W half of a rath (MA118-110001-). Described by Knox (1911, 228-9) as the ‘foundations of a small rectangular building, 22 feet square’, enclosing the opening to a souterrain (MA118-110002-). In 1990 it was recorded as 'Hut site 1 (3.1m N-S; 2.8m E-W), on W side, defined by low earthen bank (H 0.3) contains souterrain' (Lavelle 1994). There is another house (MA118-110004-) in the N half of the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 January 2014
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.
Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.