Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynastockagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynastockagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockanroe Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockanroe Fort (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.71740, -8.79015
- SMR number
- MA103-027----
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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
On a low rise in lowlying, flat wet pasture. A stream c. 100m to E coincides with the townland boundary. There is a low NNW−SSE ridge c. 300m to NE. The field is bordered at W by a N−S road.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20-25m), named ‘Knockanroe Fort’, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions where the location is marked ‘‘Knockanroe Fort (Site of)’.
A low grass-covered mound (overall diam. 36.5m E−W; 48.5m N−S; H 2m at N, 1.7m at W) crossed at S edge by an E−W property fence. The top (c. 15m E−W; c. 25-30m N−S) is fairly level merging seamlessly with broadly sloping sides, producing the effect of a gently humped profile. The slope is more gradual in the S third. It is not clear to what extend this mound equates with the original extent of the enclosure or represents a natural rise on which the enclosure was built.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.