Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castlenageeha, County Mayo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.