Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Parks, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parks
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74523, -9.21101
- SMR number
- MA100-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture, on E-facing slope. Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Shown on the 1931 edition as a semicircular hachured area (diam. c. 55-60m), curving E-WSW. Lavelle (1994, 65, No. 480) recorded it as 'Levelled; no visible surface traces. Local tradition of ringfort.'.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.