Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycarroon, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycarroon
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08941, -9.34818
- SMR number
- MA038-013----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, in an area of undulating terrain. Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map or on the 25-inch plan; depicted on the 1922 edition as a D-shaped hachured area bordered on the straight side to W by a field boundary. Included in the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) as ‘enclosure (site)’. A note in the SMR file records it as a destroyed enclosure.
At this location there is as a D-shaped depression (14m NNW–SSE; 12m ENE–WSW; D 1.6m) with a concave inward-sloping scarp on the curving side, which falls to a relatively level base. On the straight side to W there is a steep external fall of ground, with remnants of a field fence on the top of this scarp. Ash trees grow in the interior, and gorse and brambles ring the perimeter. It appears to be a quarry pit of relatively recent date. No trace of an enclosure remains. There is a possible rath (MA038-014) c. 100m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.