Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Scregg (costello By., Aghamore Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scregg (costello By., Aghamore Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82696, -8.79596
- SMR number
- MA082-013001-
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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 a low NW–SE ridge with a fall of ground to NE. Good views over the surrounding countryside. Listed as ‘enclosure –possible’ in the SMR (1991) and RMP (1997). A not in the SMR file sugguest that there may be an enclosure or ‘ritual hill’ here; no other details are given. There is no visible trace at ground level of an enclosure, but there is a mound barrow (MA082-013002-) here.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.