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Enclosure

Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Bohola, 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
Bohola
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.89279, -9.06762
SMR number
MA071-121----

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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

In pasture close to the townland boundary in the E corner of the townland, located on gently elevated ground flanked by small stream valleys at W and E.
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, with a small circular feature, probably a limekiln, indicated in the centre of the interior. The enclosure is not shown on later map editions.
It has been levelled, but the ephemeral outline of a roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) can still be traced, with a slight curving scarp at SW−N merging with the natural slope. A large boulder sits at the E edge of the area. A linear WNW−ESE feature, probably remnants of a field fence, crosses the S part of the enclosure. An old quarry pit (max. dim. c. 15m) abuts the SW edge of the enclosure and considerable surface disturbance is evident throughout the area.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 August 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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