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Enclosure

Ballinamore, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballinamore, 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
Ballinamore
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lismeel
Latest-edition OS map
Lismeel
Coordinates
53.83239, -9.03755
SMR number
MA080-036----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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 pasture, in the former grounds of Ballinamore House, an 18th-century country house (NIAH no 31308003), located a prominent rise with excellent views. There is a hollow of wettish ground to SE.
Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. 40-45m) named ‘Lismeel’; depicted on later map editions as an irregular-shaped hachured feature.
This possible rath has been levelled, and partly quarried out at S−SW. The remains consist of a kidney-shaped platform (c. 30m NNW−SSE; c. 16m NNE−SSW) with a high, broadly slumped scarp (Wth slope c. 7m; H 1.6m at NW, H 1.8-2m at NE) which merges almost seamlessly with the natural slope of the rise. A very shallow depression (W c. 4m) curves around the NW−N arc, possibly indicating a fosse.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 2 December 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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