Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Summerhill North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Summerhill North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73640, -9.15001
- SMR number
- MA100-165----
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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 pasture, located on level, lowlying ground, with undulating terrain to S and a roughly N−S ridge to E. Croagh Patrick is visible on the far horizon to W. The enclosure abuts a low rise at W−NW.
This enclosure is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled and the remains are barely discernible at ground level.
It consists of a circular area (53m N−S; c. 50m E−W) defined by a slight undulation (Wth 3-4m), which represents a levelled bank. The bank merges with the slope of a low natural rise on the W arc. There appears to be a break in the bank at NE−E, possibly an entrance.
The interior is level and not noticeably raised above exterior ground level. In the N half, there is a shallow, circular flat-based depression (diam. 10-11m; D 0.2-0.3) of uncertain significance. A barely discernible linear feature, probably a levelled field boundary, extends across the centre of the interior on a N−S axis. A rath (MA100-076----) is located on the ridge c. 230m to E.
Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère.
Attached image:
MA100-165----_01.JPG Viewed from SW
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.