Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lurga Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurga Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92803, -8.78229
- SMR number
- MA063-052----
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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)
- 1857 · 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 gently undulating pasture, bordered c. 300m to E by a small river.
Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Shown on the 1920 edition as a circular enclosed area (diam. c. 20m), bordered at N by a laneway, and incorporated on its perimeter at NE–SE into a field boundary. Levelled during land reclamation; there is no visible trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.