Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Turlough (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turlough (Costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77478, -8.84376
- SMR number
- MA092-107----
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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
This record was not recorded in the SMR (1991). It was listed in RMP (1997) as a possible ringfort on the basis of information received in 1993 from a local source (SMR file).
This location consists of a field (c. 45-50m N–S; c. 30m E–W) of flat, featureless ground covered in rough grass and occasional clumps of willow scrub and brambles. To W and N the field is bordered by straight field boundaries outside which lie roads. On the E side of the field the ground drops into to pool/wet marshy ground surrounded by trees and scrub. On the S of the area, the ground level slopes down gently to an old, grass-covered E−W trackway/road. There is no trace of the reported 'earthen banks' and no convincing evidence that there is an enclosure/ringfort here.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.