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Road - road/trackway

Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, 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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.90484, -9.07143
SMR number
MA071-195----

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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

Located in an area of rough damp pasture.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch mapping. Listed in the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) as possible earthworks based on linear features visible in an aerial photograph SMR file: GSI M 690 -1; Roll 217, pr. 31).
The remains consist of a slightly sunken trackway (Wth 2.8-3.1m) bordered by earthen field banks (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.35-0.4m; ext. H 0.2m). Intervening between the trackway and the banks are shallow linear depressions (Wth 1.6-2m), probably infilled field ditches. The full extent of the trackway is unclear; above ground remnants can be traced on a NNE–SSW axis for c. 200m between, and a cropmark visible in aerial imagery suggests that it extended for a further c. 100m to NNE.
The date of the trackway is unknown, but it clearly pre-dates the current grid of rectangular fields. Other linear features visible in the aerial photograph correspond to a series of defunct field banks and field drains, also of unknown date.
There is a church (MA071-077001-) and a graveyard (MA071-077002-) c. 180m to E and a motte (MA071-076----) c. 200m to NE.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 24 September 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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