Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrownlacka, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownlacka
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90511, -8.68599
- SMR number
- MA073-035----
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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 an area of rough, rocky pasture, divided into a series regular, narrow NW-SE fields or ‘stripes’ by drystone field walls, which are superimposed on earlier, irregular sub-divisions.
This enclosure is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It is indicated on the 1919 edition as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (c. 35m E-W; c. 25m N-S) with straight side at N and S defined by a field boundaries. The enclosure is also recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 681-0; Roll 218, pr. 8).
The enclosure was removed during land reclamation in 1980's/early 1990's. When inspected in 1996, a slight rise in ground level, bordered at NE and SW by field walls, was evident with remnants of a low curving scarp (H 0.4m) immediately to S of the SW field wall, possibly preserving the extreme S edge of the enclosure. A single hawthorn bush stood at the location.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.