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Enclosure

Lisduvoge, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lisduvoge, 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
Lisduvoge
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.04598, -9.22153
SMR number
MA039-086----

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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, located on a slight N–S rise. The shoreline of Lough Conn is 100m to W. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 25-30m), with an E–W field fence immediately outside the bank at S, and on the 1930 edition as a D-shaped enclosure (c. 30-35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) bordered on the straight side at S by a field boundary. This enclosure was levelled in the mid 1990’s. Another enclosure (MA039-085----) is located c. 135m to NNE.

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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