Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Laghtmacdurkan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laghtmacdurkan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92733, -9.05305
- SMR number
- MA071-188----
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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 a thicket of overgrowth at the narrow W side of a pasture field. It is located at a break of slope on elevated ground, overlooking an expanse of lowlying, poorly drained pasture to SW, with undulating pasture to W and NW.
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), with a ring of trees outside the perimeter, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions.
The remains consist of a circular, flat-topped stony mound (6.3m NW–SE; c. 6m NE–SW) defined by a stony scarp (H 0.55 at E, 0.8–1m at W), which retains a slight internal lip in parts N–NE. Hawthorn trees grow around the perimeter. The mound is difficult to examine due to overgrowth, and its nature is unclear. There is a rath (MA071-028----) c. 100m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.