Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybrinoge, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrinoge
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06738, -9.33043
- SMR number
- MA038-081----
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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, located on a low rise in an area of rolling grassland with expanses of bog c. 300m to SE.
Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 30m), but depicted on later editions as a subrectangular area incorporated into a straight field boundary on the SW side. This may be the remains of a rath. It survives as a slightly raised, roughly D-shaped or sub-rectangular area (c. 38m NW–SE; 34.3m NE–SW) defined on the straight side at SW by a field fence on a NW–SE axis. At NW–N there is an arc of bank (W 4.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m) which continues at NE–S as a levelled scarp, petering out at S.
A low, irregular bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.35-0.4m) of earth and stones curves in a shallow arc from the scarp at SE into the interior, enclosing an area (c. 12m N–S; c. 6m E–W) of uneven, disturbed ground in the SE quadrant of the interior; this appears to be the result of relatively recent modification of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.