Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Magheraboy (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraboy (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87374, -8.65978
- SMR number
- MA074-010001-
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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, located on top of a roughly E–W ridge.
This enclosure is indicated as ‘Old Grave Yd.’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ (MA074-010002) on the 1920 edition. It has been partly levelled. It survives as a slightly raised, broadly oval area (36m N–S; c. 39m E–W) defined N–SSW by a sod-covered stony bank/scarp. At N–NE the stone bank is reduced to a broad grassy rise (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m), with a break (Wth 6m) at NE; at E–S it is evident as a stony scarp (ext. H 1.6m) and at S–SW as a stony bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m). The enclosing element has been levelled SW–NNW but a slightly raised undulation can still be traced.
This enclosure may be a modified ringfort, reused as a burying ground (MA074-010002-).
The perimeter N–S is ringed with hawthorn and heaps of field clearance stone; the interior is grassy. There is a cashel (MA074-009----) 125m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.