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Enclosure

Levallyroe (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Levallyroe, 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
Levallyroe (Costello By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.71438, -8.77353
SMR number
MA103-029----

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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 the top of a hill, with good views. A meandering river lies c. 250m to N and Levally Lough is 280m to SE.
A roughly circular embanked enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; by the time of the 1916 edition it is depicted as a D-shaped hachured enclosure (36m N−S; 39m E-W), truncated on the straight side at E by a field boundary. There is no visible trace at ground level; it appears to have encompassed the level top of the hill. There is a small quarry pit at the SE edge of the area. Another rath (MA103-030001-) is visible 200m to SE.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 4 November 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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