Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Cloghans, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghans
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06132, -9.21947
- SMR number
- MA039-120----
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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, at the tip of a headland jutting N into a small bay on the NE shoreline of Lough Conn.
Not shown on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps; shown on the 25-inch plan as a subtriangular-shaped hachured area (c. 40m N−S; c. 30m E−W at broad S end), encompassing the roughly triangular-shaped tip of the headland, and listed in 1991 SMR and in 1997 RMP as a possible promontory fort on this basis. A very slight rise in ground level is evident at the location, but there is no visible above ground evidence of an enclosure. A straight field fence is shown on the 1930 OS 6-inch map cutting across the headland on a NE−SW axis; this has been removed.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.