Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Gortnasillagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnasillagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90499, -9.00395
- SMR number
- MA071-100----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a slight rise in gently undulating landscape, with good but not extensive views.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. 15-20m), bordered on the N edge by an E−W field boundary, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; a hachured sunken feature is shown on the 1931 edition.
It has been levelled, but the outline is visible as a cropmark. An intermittent band (Wth c. 2m) of yellow grass, possibly a levelled bank, defines a level D-shaped area (14m E–W; 15m N–S to lane), truncated on the straight side at N by a laneway. A circular area (diam. c. 5m) of yellow grass is visible roughly in the centre of the enclosed space, with a gap of c. 3–4m intervening between it and the enclosing band of yellow grass. These cropmarks may preserve the outline of a levelled ringbarrow.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.