Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - unclassified
Carheens (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carheens (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Vault
- Coordinates
- 53.51803, -9.22496
- SMR number
- MA123-005004-
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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 slightly W of centre within a graveyard (MA123-005002-). Indicated as 'Vault' on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. A 19th-century stone-built vaulted tomb (3.55m N-S; 3.45m E-W; H 2m), topped by a stepped arrangement of finely cut limestone slabs with the apex surmounted by a decorative stone urn. A slab set in the S wall carries a dedication to the D'Arcy family of Houndswood, Castletown and Ballykine. The entrance to the vault is at N and is unsealed, though partly blocked by later drystone walling. The tomb stands within a square enclosure (7.1m E–W; 7.4m N–S) delimited by a roughly-built drystone wall.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 July 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.