Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Kilmurry Beg, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry Beg
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06276, -9.34364
- SMR number
- MA038-080----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 pasture, situated on a low rise in an area of undulating terrain, overlooked by an E–W ridge of higher ground to N. There is a gentle rise in ground to E. Nephin Mountain dominates the view to SSW, and the Nephin Beg range defines the skyline at S–W.
A slightly raised, circular platform (diam. 9.5m) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.4m), and enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.8m) with an external bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.85m). Some field clearance stones are strewn in the interior and on the bank. Hawthorn trees ring the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 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.