Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Brackloon (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90051, -8.96109
- SMR number
- MA072-040----
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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, located on rising ground, with a stream at the base of slope c. 50m to N. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as semicircular area (diam. c. 30-35m N–S) of hachuring curving from N–SW, bisected slightly E of centre by a field fence on a NW-SE axis. It is shown on the 25-inch plan as a substantially raised, hachured area with a circular summit (diam. c. 25m), possibly indicating an enclosure crowning a natural hill. It is not shown on the 1930 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace. According to local information, a small gravel rise or hill stood at this location; it was dug away and then levelled out.
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.