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Enclosure

Castlenageeha, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Castlenageeha, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castlenageeha
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.25843, -9.21770
SMR number
MA015-078----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in pasture, on a gentle E-facing slope overlooking Killala Bay. The rocky shoreline and Trabaun beach are c. 150m to E and NE respectively.
This enclosure is not shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It is poorly preserved and its original form is difficult to determine. It consists of a subcircular area (c. 38m E-W; c. 35-37m N-S) defined at NNW-SW by a low, irregular broadly-spread, sod-covered stony bank (Wth 3.7-5m; int. H 0.1-0.7m; ext. H 0.35m-0.7m) and at W by a poorly defined inward-facing scarp or slope. The bank has a more pronounced external slope at E where there is a natural fall of ground. There is a break (Wth 7m) in the bank at ENE. An E-W field wall bisects the interior to N of centre. Immediately to N of the wall, part of the interior has been quarried out leaving a semi-circular depression (6m N-S; 10m E-W). A heap of field clearance stone overlies the bank at the S.
A ringfort (MA015-014----) located 100m to NW.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 7 December 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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