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Enclosure

Carha (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carha, 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
Carha (Gallen By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.13728, -9.03931
SMR number
MA031-011001-

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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

Encompassing a natural rise, which offers panoramic views, with the Ox Mountains defining the far horizon from E−NW, and Nephin Mountain looming at SW. It overlooks an expanse of flat wettish pasture, where a (MA031-010----), now levelled, is located c. 50m to SW.
This monument is not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map, but it is shown on the 1922 edition as a circular hachured area, with a standing stone (MA031-011002-) in the centre. It is evident as a domed rise or hillock (c. 30m E−W; c. 20m N−S), with steeply sloping sides on the W half and a more gradual slope at E. A scarp (Wth. 1.2m; H 0.45m) is cut into the base of the slope at N−NE. Remnants of a low scarp (H 0.3-0.4m) defines the flat top of the hillock NE−SW, giving it the appearance of a platform (diam. c. 6m), on which the standing stone is located slightly off-centre to S.
This may be a natural hillock, which has been modified to form a setting for the standing stone. It is partly obscured by gorse and bramble.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 June 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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