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Field boundary

Carrowbaun (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field boundary, Carrowbaun, 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
Carrowbaun (Costello By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.83992, -8.80560
SMR number
MA082-041002-

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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, located on the SW-facing slope on a ridge.
Shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map as a field boundary describing a shallow arc SW–NE, intersecting at E with a N–S linear field boundary, and at SW end with a straight field boundary that extends to W.
The arc of wall is extant. It consists of a ruined drystone wall reduced to wall footings (Wth 0.9m; H 0.2m) with heaps of loose field stones on top. At NE end it ends at the extant N-S field wall. Ground slopes down towards another short isolated arc of sod-covered wall footings located c. 40m to SE. The walls appear to respect natural contours. They may have enclosed a roughly D-shaped area (c. 70m NE–SW; c. 50m NW–SE), curving SE–NE, bordered now on the straight E side by the extant N–S field wall –but this is very uncertain. They may predate the current grid of N-S/E-W rectangular fields, but nevertheless, appear to be of relatively recent date.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 22 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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