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Enclosure

Creevy, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Creevy, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Creevy
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.06226, -9.38332
SMR number
MA038-215----

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David 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, located against a slight SE–facing slope, in gently undulating terrain bordered c. 150m to W by tracts of bog, now largely forested. There is a rath (MA038-070----) c. 50m to S, and another rath (MA038-068----) c. 130m to N.
This enclosure is not indicated on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It consist of a semicircular platform (16m NE–SW; 8.5m NW–SW to field fence) defined NNE–SW by a stony scarp (H 0.7m), and on the straight side to NW by a field boundary on a NE–SW axis. The scarp, which is degraded and slumped, is edged and topped with stones. The remains may represent the SW half of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20-25m), the NW half of which, to N of the field fence, has been levelled. To NW of the fence, more or less in line with the scarp at W, a linear heap or rough bank (Wth c. 4m; H 1m) of earth and stones extends for 10m to NW, with a slight curve to N. It has a rough jumbled appearance, suggestive of field clearance, but may be remnants of a bank or wall that defined the NW half the enclosure. A slight rise in ground level is also evident to NW of the boundary fence.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 2 August 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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