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Enclosure

Kilcashel, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilcashel, 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
Kilcashel
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.88259, -8.68570
SMR number
MA073-039----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · 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

In level pasture, located on a low natural rise. There are good views to E and W; a wooded E-W ridge blocks views to S and gradually rising ground restricts views to N.
This enclosure is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It is recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 681 -0; Roll 218, pr. 6) as a circular area (diam. c. 25-30m), crossed roughly centrally on a NW-SE axis by a field wall. It was levelled during land reclamation. The field wall is extant. To E of the field wall, the outline of the E half of the enclosure can still be discerned as a flat semi-circular area (c.16m NE-SW; c. 12m NW-SE to the wall) defined on the perimeter by a slight slope or levelled scarp, curving NW−S.
According to local information, a bullaun stone (MA073-039001-) was found at this location.
There are cashels (MA073-028----; MA073-029----; MA073-030001-) 200m to N, 275m to NE and 300m to ENE, respectively.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 22 June 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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