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Enclosure

Friarstown, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Friarstown, 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
Friarstown
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.04742, -9.22047
SMR number
MA039-085----

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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 lowlying pasture bordering the E shoreline of Lough Conn, which is 160m to W. Immediately to E of the enclosure there is an expanse of wet pasture. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked ringfort-like enclosure (diam. c. 20m), with the bank at S coinciding with the townland boundary; on the 1930 edition the E side is bordered by a N−S field boundary.
Slightly raised roughly D-shaped or subrectangular area (c. 20-25m N–S; c. 18m E–W) defined in a shallow curve at S–NW by a low sod-covered wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.65m), which becomes a gently curving stone faced scarp (H 0.4m) at NNW–NE. The enclosure appears to have been truncated on the E and S sides, which are straight and defined by field fences. The interior, which appears to be level, is obscured by an impenetrable thicket of thorn bushes and brambles. Another enclosure (MA039-086----) is located c. 135m to SSW.

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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