Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lackafinna, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackafinna
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53978, -9.26223
- SMR number
- MA120-054002-
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
Situated in levelled ringfort (MA120-054001-). A stone-built chamber was re-opened by chance during clearing in December 1990. Accessed through the collapsed roof; the site (L 13.4m; Wth 1.7m; H 1.6m) was orientated NW-SE. Constructed of random uncoursed dry-stone, with large boulders also present in the N wall. Site has been refilled and is now inaccessible.
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. 526.
Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.