Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cloonboorhy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonboorhy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74869, -9.23107
- SMR number
- MA100-164----
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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 pasture, on a broad terrace, bordered by a steeply rising slope on the E side and by a fall of ground to W. The enclosure is sited on a low rise close to the W edge of the terrace, overlooking a flat expanse of damp ground.
This enclosure is not indicated on the OS 6-inch maps. It has been partly levelled and the remains are very low profile at ground level. It is evident as a roughly circular area (26.5m E−W; c. 26m N−S) defined on the S half by a low scarp (H 0.3m at E, 0.6m at S), which retains a slight internal lip in parts, with a broader rise (Wth 3.5; int. H 0.45m) at W. The outline of the N arc is barely discernible. The interior is level, and does not appear significantly raised above exterior ground level. A post and wire fence extends across the centre of the enclosure on an E−W axis. A field boundary abuts the enclosure at N and a low undulation, possibly the remnants of a field boundary, extends to E from the SW edge of the enclosure.
Attached images:
MA100-164----_01.JPG Viewed from N
MA100-164----_02.JPG Viewed from E
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 March 20
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.