Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tullynahoo, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullynahoo
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89771, -8.90637
- SMR number
- MA072-078001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the NE corner of a pasture field bordered on the N by a road, located on a rise.
This monument is probably a ringfort. It is one of two conjoined circular embanked enclosures shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; the second enclosure (MA072-078002) is appended to its E side. By the time of the 1930 map edition, it is depicted as a subrectangular field plot (23m N−S; 24m E−W) defined by field boundaries which retain a slight curve at S−W; the eastern enclosure (MA072-078002) is not shown on 1930 edition. It is also recorded in an aerial photograph (GSI M686 -7 Roll 217, pr. 37; SMR file).
The outline of the enclosure can no longer be discerned at ground level. The enclosing element at SE-NW has been levelled. The N edge is clipped by the field wall flanking the E−W road. At E a property wall, oriented roughly N−S, has a slight curve reflecting the original E arc of the enclosure, and it overlies the original junction with the eastern enclosure (MA072-078002-).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.