Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyvicmaha, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvicmaha
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05889, -9.34973
- SMR number
- MA038-076----
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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, located on a rise in gently undulating terrain.
Circular area (21m E–W; 21m N–S) enclosed by a substantial stone bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1m) evident as a broad, partly sod-covered spread of stones. At NNW a short section of drystone walling is visible on the inner face, suggesting that the stone bank is the remains of a collapsed wall. The interior is relatively level and not noticeably raised above exterior ground level. There is a gap (Wth 3.7m) in the stone bank at N.
The enclosure was incorporated into a system of later field walls, one of which on a roughly E–W axis bisects the S half of the interior. Walls which intersected with the enclosure at N and S, have been removed.
The perimeter ringed with hawthorn and scrub. There is a rath (MA038-075----) and children’s burial ground (MA038-075001-) 160m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.