Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycarroon, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycarroon
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08567, -9.34734
- SMR number
- MA038-046----
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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 undulating terrain, located on a rise with a steep slope on the E side. A stream/field drain skirts the base of the rise at NE–E and continues for 100m to S to meet the River Deel, which marks the townland boundary.
This enclosure is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps as a circular ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 20m). It has been levelled; a low, flat-topped roughly circular rise (c. 14m E–W; 16-18m N–S), with a fall of ground on the E side, is evident. Adjacent field boundaries, which are shown to W, N and E on the 1922 OS 6-inch map, have been removed.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.