Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballybackagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybackagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53590, -9.14033
- SMR number
- MA121-151001-
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
On interior of a cashel (MA121-151----). Lavelle (1994, 39, no. 242) that a ‘Circular mound (Wth 10m E-W; H 0.4m) in centre of interior may represent hut site.’
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.