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Enclosure

Ballygarriff, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballygarriff, 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
Ballygarriff
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.92568, -9.19698
SMR number
MA070-030----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a N-S ridge in improved pasture with a steep slope to the E and a coniferous plantation c. 60m to the W. Recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 20m) and partly indicated on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the map which depicts a later field boundary (since removed) running E-W across the N limits of the site. No visible surface trace survives and the location is indicated by a circular area (diam. c. 20m) of lush grass growth. A ringfort (MA070-032----) stands on the same ridge c. 175m to the S and a second ringfort (MA070-034----) stands c. 100m beyond it again, to the S. 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan 

Date of upload: 31-10-2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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