Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Devlis, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Devlis
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75994, -8.75141
- SMR number
- MA093-053----
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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 refers to an enclosure noted here by Knox (1911, 337) in the early 1900’s. He described it as a much ruined rectangular, platform-like enclosure scarped out of the lower E end of an esker, which was surrounded by marshy ground on three sides; it was located ‘in a field called Paurkeen Sam, “Sam’s little park” or “field”.’ The rectangular platform (c. 37m E−W; c. 17m N−S) was defined on the N, E and S sides by scarps (H 1.8-2m), with ‘a slight trace of a bank on the top of the eastern scarp’. On the W side there was what seemed to be a ‘great rampart’ scarped into the rising slope of the esker (Knox 1911, 337).
The esker was largely quarried away in the late 20th century; there is now no visible trace of an enclosure.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 29 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.