Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyholan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyholan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.11466, -9.12142
- SMR number
- MA030-060----
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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 on a knoll in undulating pasture.
This possible enclosure is shown on the 1837 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular ringfort-like enclosure (diam. c. 40m, 1930), skirted by a laneway at N. At the location, there is a roughly circular hillock (diam. c. 50m) with a domed profile that rises several meters high to a narrow peak. At the top of the hillock is a shallow depression (10m N-S; 8m E-W), possibly a quarry pit. Skirting the base of the hillock at N−SE is a field bank (Wth 1.4m; H 0.5m) lined with hawthorn bushes. A dense covering of gorse, blackthorn and brambles made inspection difficult; it is unclear if there was an enclosure here.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.