Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortaskibbole, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaskibbole
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05434, -9.17882
- SMR number
- MA039-094----
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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 on a ridge, close to the break of slope on the NE side, overlooking a flat expanse of lowlying damp pasture to N–NE. Shown as roughly oval, embanked enclosure (25-30m NW–SE; c. 20m NE–SW) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map but not shown on the 1930 edition. This enclosure has been levelled; a very slight subcircular undulation (diam. c. 25m) can still be traced at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.