Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shanaghy (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanaghy (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88501, -9.03000
- SMR number
- MA071-152----
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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 a dense thicket of blackthorn, located at the steep break of slope on the SW side of a ridge, with excellent views.
A circular embanked enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; a penannular enclosure, open to NW, and incorporated onto later field walls is shown on the 1931 edition. Dense overgrowth impeded examination of this roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). Remnants of an enclosing wall or stone bank (Wth c. 1.8m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.6m, at NE) composed of limestone stones and boulders can be glimpsed at N–NE and at SW where it merges with the break of slope. The interior is largely impenetrable, but appears to be relatively level, broken in parts by limestone boulders or bedrock. According to local tradition, there is a children’s burial ground (MA071-152001-) here.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.