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Enclosure

Carrowkeribly, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carrowkeribly, 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
Carrowkeribly
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.05889, -9.12059
SMR number
MA039-081----

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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 average pasture, located on a slight rise in gently undulating terrain bordered to W–NW by an extensive tract of bog. Carrowkeribly Lough is c. 450m to S.
Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly D-shaped embanked enclosure, truncated at NW and NE by field boundaries, and on the 1930 map as an oblong enclosure (c. 35-40m NE–SW; c. 25m NW–SE) bordered at NW and W by a field boundary. OPW Topographic Files record that it was levelled during land reclamation in late 1975 or early 1976 (SMR file). There is no above ground trace. A faint circular cropmark (diam. c. 35m) is visible in current aerial views.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 1 April 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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