Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybeg (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72907, -8.70097
- SMR number
- MA103-020----
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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 an undulating ridge with good views.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; by the time of the 1916 edition it had been truncated at SW and NW by linear field boundaries.
A broad rise, almost like a small hillock, (diam. 25-30), is evident at the location. A farm road flanked by dry stone walls skirts the W side of the rise. A pit (c. 8m across; D 1.5m) is cut into the top of the rise.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.