Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Carrowneden (Costello By., Aghamore Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowneden (Costello By., Aghamore Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80376, -8.79402
- SMR number
- MA093-007005-
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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
In average pasture, on a rise in undulating limestone terrain, immediately to NE of a cashel (MA093-007001-).
This field wall of unknown date was recorded in 1984 (SMR file) but subsequently destroyed during land reclamation in late 1980's/early 1990's. The wall (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.5m) was described as consisting of two facings of large stones with a core of small stones. It extended from the NE side of the cashel in a broad curve N–E. The point of contact of the wall and the cashel wall was obscured by a later field wall. At its E end the wall intersected with a modern NNW–SSE field wall (which is shown c. 20m to E of the cashel on the 1916 OS 6-inch map) which was also removed during reclamation works.
Approximately a third of the way along its length, short projecting walls branched from the wall to meet the SW and SE corners of a small rectangular enclosure (MA093-007004-). Slight surface undulations can still be discerned, suggesting that the wall followed the natural curving contours of the rise on which the cashel is situated.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.