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
- 54.04688, -9.17370
- SMR number
- MA039-097----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on lowlying level ground. This is shown as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. 15-20m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. No visible surface trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.