Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ahena, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahena
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71355, -9.08541
- SMR number
- MA101-102----
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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
Remains of an enclosure surives as a raised platform-like area (diam. c. 30m) and visible on an aerial photograph (SMR file). (Murphy 1998)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 24 February 2014
References
Murphy, D. 1998 Report on archaeological rescue excavation at Ahena, Co. Mayo. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Licence no. 98E0177.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.