Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymoyock, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymoyock
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04414, -9.35346
- SMR number
- MA038-112----
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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. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular, ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 25m), bisected slightly N of centre by a field boundary on a ENE–WSW axis, from which an second field boundary extended N through the NE quadrant of the interior. It is not shown on later map editions.
At the location there is a drumlin-like rise across which an earth and stone field fence extends on a ENE-WSW axis. The enclosure is likely to have encompassed this natural rise, but no trace of any enclosing element is now evident. There is a rath (MA038-113----) c. 100m 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.