Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilmoremoy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmoremoy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12193, -9.16700
- SMR number
- MA030-051005-
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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 on the level top of an E-facing slope, enclosed within a burial ground named ‘League Cemetery’ (MA030-051004-).
This enclosure is not indicated on the 1837 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a slightly raised, roughly circular area (c. 27m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by a scarp. The scarp (H 1.2m at E) is well defined at NE−SE, but is difficult to trace at S where it is truncated by modern graves; it is low and poorly defined at SW−NW, and cannot be traced at NW−N, where it is engulfed by a dense thicket of overgrowth.
There are 18th- and 19th-century headstones and grave slabs, as well as a number of low uninscribed grave-markers throughout the interior. In the NE quadrant, a cross-inscribed stone (MA030-051007-) protrudes from the ground, and a possible bullaun stone (MA030-051006-) lies against the enclosure scarp at E. Kilmoremoy graveyard (MA030-05102-), which encloses a medieval church (MA030-05101-), is located 150m down-slope to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 February 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.