Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinlag, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlag
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90602, -8.99667
- SMR number
- MA071-103----
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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 undulating pasture, located on a low rise, with good but not extensive views. The Trimoge River is 200m to SW. There is a disused railway track c. 60m to E.
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) is shown on the 1838 and 1931 OS 6-inch maps, abutted on its NW edge by a straight NE−SW field boundary/townland boundary.
It has been levelled. A low undulation preserves the outline of a roughly circular area (diam. c. 25m) with a slight scarp remaining on the SW arc. It is truncated on NW edge by a field fence. There is a raised area (diam. c. 9m) in the S half of the interior, with a telegraph pole standing on its NW edge.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.