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Enclosure

Carrowneden (Costello By., Annagh Par.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carrowneden (Costello By., Annagh Par.), County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowneden (Costello By., Annagh Par.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.69994, -8.83684
SMR number
MA102-040----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a NE-facing slope on a NW–SE ridge. The spine of the ridge restricts views to SE but there are extensive views to N–NE.
Shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map as a broadly oval enclosure (c. 45-50m N–S; c. 55-60m E–W), incorporated into a field fence at N–SE which respects the curve of the enclosure. This rath has been levelled. The N–SE curve of the property fence preserves the outline of the E side of the rath but no other evidence of the rath is visible at ground level. It was constructed on a slope, and the interior area appears to have encompassed a relatively level area at S–SW from which ground slopes down to NE. Another rath (MA102-039----), also levelled, lies 8m to SSW.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 27 September 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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