Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cottage (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cottage (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71705, -8.78234
- SMR number
- MA103-028----
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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 a ridge, just below the highest point. Ground falls steeply to SW giving extensive views over a broad sweep of lowlying pasture and bog.
Not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A D-shaped enclosure is recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 55 -6; Roll 207, pr. 24).
Low D-shaped platform (46m NNW−SSE; c. 25m ENE−WSW) defined on the curving side at SSE−N by a scarp (H 0.6m; Wth slope 1.8m), which is poorly preserved on the S arc. The straight side at NE is formed by a high scarp/hedgerow bordering a road. There is a low area/break (Wth c. 2m) in the scarp at NW. A post and wire fence on a NW−SE axis cross the S end of the platform.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.