Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doonbreedia, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonbreedia
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04755, -9.36089
- SMR number
- MA038-110----
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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 undulating average pasture, overlooking an area of rough wettish land to W. The location is in the NW corner of a modern rectangular field, bordered by a road at W.
This monument is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 20m); it is not shown on later map editions. There is no visible trace at ground level. According to local tradition, there was a burial site at or close to this location, possibly (MA038-142----). There is a rath (MA038-111----) 200m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.