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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89542, -8.98956
- SMR number
- MA071-141----
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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, on a broad level terrace on the SW-facing slope of a ridge, overlooking a valley of boggy pasture at SW–W. There is rising ground to NE.
An oval enclosure (35-40m N−S; 20-25m E−W) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, with the townland boundary coinciding with the E arc of the enclosure. It is not shown on the 1931 edition.
It has been levelled; the ephemeral outline of a level area (c. 35m N−S; c. 16m E−W) is evident, bordered on the E side by a field wall engulfed in overgrowth.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.