Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Houndswood Middle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Houndswood Middle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53451, -9.18093
- SMR number
- MA121-143001-
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 centre of a rath (MA121-143----). Recorded by Lavelle (1994, 30, no. 169) as follows ‘Circular hut site (ext. dims. 7.8m N-S; 8.3m E-W) in centre of interior, defined by low stone foundations (H 0.2m; Wth 1.2m).’
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.