Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cloonta, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonta
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13337, -9.04368
- SMR number
- MA031-008----
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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
In undulating pasture, located on a hillock. A flat expanse of boggy pasture, which lies to N, is shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map as a small lake, named ‘Colemans Lough’.
This enclosure is shown on the 1837-8 OS map as a circular, ringfort-like enclosure (diam. c. 40m), and on the 1922 edition as a penannular, hachured area (diam. c. 35-40m) open to NE. At the location there is gently domed knoll or hillock (c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S; H c. 2m to SW; 3m to NE), roughly oval in plan, with a flattish top and broadly sloping sides. The sides slope quite steeply, and are scarped (H 0.9m) at their base at S-W. It has the appearance of a natural hillock; it may have been modified in the past to form an enclosure, however, no clearly defined enclosing element is now evident.
The flattish top (diam. c. 13.5m) is traversed by a discrete length of bank (L 9m NNW-SSE) incorporating a single large boulder, which according to local tradition, was used as mass rock (MA031-008001-). There is a possible souterrain (MA031-073----) c. 130m to SW, and a possible rath (MA031-007----) c. 220m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.