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Enclosure

Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Kilgarvan Par.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Kilgarvan Par.), 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
Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Kilgarvan Par.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.08145, -9.07507
SMR number
MA040-052----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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 rise, with a fall of ground to E to an area of wet ground.
Roughly oval raised area (c. 19.5m N−S; c. 16m E−W) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m). The interior slopes down by as much as 1-1.5m from centre to E, mirroring the natural slope. Short semicircular sections of the scarp at N and SE−S have been quarried out. A N−S field fence clips the scarp along the W side of the enclosure, and remnants of a perpendicular field wall extends W from it across the S half of the interior. Grass cover, with blackthorn scrub encroaching from the field fence/hedgerow at W. There is an enclosure (MA040-099----) 45m to NW and a rath (MA040-051----) 90m to NW.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 May 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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