Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballymacgibbon North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacgibbon North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballymacgibbon Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.54215, -9.23709
- SMR number
- MA121-090----
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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 undulating pastureland. This cairn is a National Monument (no. 251) in state care. Oval-shaped mound of stone (H 10m; diam. 51m at base), delimited by four flat kerbstones E to SW, enclosed by a heavily overgrown earthen bank (H 0.9m). Decorated stone ball recovered from the site in the late 1800s (NMI). Material from the cairn was probably used to construct the Ordnance Survey trigonometrical station on its summit. Wilde (1872, 222) mentions a large inaccessible cave beneath the stones.
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. 26.
Date of upload: 7 January 2015
References
Wilde, W. 1872 Lough Corrib: its shores and islands with notices of Lough Mask. 2nd ed. Dublin. McGlashan and Gill.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.