Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Lough Corrib, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Corrib
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52137, -9.25701
- SMR number
- MA123-074----
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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 in the NE end of Lough Corrib, stretching between Oak Island and Holy or Camillaun Island. This causeway is visible as a submerged linear concentration (Wth 2-3m) of large and medium-sized angular stones which stretches on a NE–SW axis for c. 25-30m between the SW side of Oak Island and the NE end of Holy or Camillaun Island. At its SW end, close to Holy or Camillaun Island, it is flanked by large flattish boulders. At the time of visit, the causeway was covered by a depth of c. 0.2m of water but when the lake levels drops, the causeway is at times partly exposed above the water (pers. comm. Hugh Lavelle, Cong, 2015).
Attached image:
MA123-074----_01 causeway viewed from W
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 June 2015
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.