Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carn (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92576, -8.84582
- SMR number
- MA072-029----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on rising ground. Indicated on 1838 OS map as a circular enclosure (diam. 30-35m) bisected on an E−W axis slightly S of centre by a trackway flanked by field walls. It is not shown on later map editions. It has been levelled; there are no visible surface remains at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.