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Enclosure

Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Inis Gé Thuaidh, 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
Inis Gé Thuaidh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.13657, -10.18956
SMR number
MA023-011002-

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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

At the NE edge of a broad low sand hill in the machair plain towards the NE end of Inishkea North.
This enclosure is indicated on the 1921 OS 6-inch map, part of a settlement cluster (MA023-011----) of enclosures and houses, named ‘Turrows’. There is a house (MA023-011003-) 4m to NW, a row of three conjoined houses (MA023-011007- to MA023-011009-) 10m to E and another enclosure (MA023-011006-) 20m to NE.
Subrectangular area (16.8m N–S; 14.5m E–W) defined by low, sod-covered wall footings (Wth c. 0.7-0.8m). The inner and outer edging of the wall, formed of stones set upright or on edge, remains well defined at N, and a short length of the inner wall face, consisting of three courses, survives to a height of 0.3m at E. The enclosed space in level and grassy.

Attached images:
MA023-011002-_01.JPG Enclosure viewed from E
MA023-011002-_02.JPG Wall footings at N
MA023-011002-_03.JPG Inner wall face at E

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 9 August 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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