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
- 53.72759, -8.70005
- SMR number
- MA103-021----
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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 improved pasture, overlooked by higher ground to N.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is depicted as a subrectangular enclosure (22m N−S; 22m E−W) with an external fosse on the 25-inch plan; it is not shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. No visible trace at ground level. Another enclosure (MA103-020----) is 130m to NW, and there is an ogham stone (MA013-022----) 215m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.