Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cloonfeightrin, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfeightrin
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99933, -8.59895
- SMR number
- MA052-017----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Adjacent to a farmstead, located on a N-facing slope.
Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15-20m). By the time of the 1920 edition it had been greatly modified; an arc of hachuring is depicted, which appears to represent the NW arc of the enclosure, but straight field boundaries are shown truncating the E, S and W sides.
The outline of the original circular enclosure can no longer be traced. According to local information, this location consisted, within living memory, as a small rectangular area (c. 15-20m E−W; c. 10m N−S) with straight field fences on the E, S and W sides. There was a sharp slope or scarp on the N side. The interior was level and covered with trees. The field fences have since been removed, and the scarp at N is levelled to a broad, low broadly slope (H 1m). The location is now used to store silage.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.