Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Cloonkerry, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkerry
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65292, -9.24336
- SMR number
- MA110-090----
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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, located on a low elevation, with a fall of ground to S−SW, in an area of fertile, gently undulating terrain. Lough Carra is c. 1.3km to W.
This large enclosure is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It is visible in satellite imagery, the best view recorded in Google Earth imagery dated 11/24/2016, which shows a roughly oval enclosure (diam. c. 100m E−W; c. 80m N-S) defined by a broad levelled bank; the bank on the NW arc appears to be somewhat less substantial and there appears to be a wide break at W; the faint rectangular outline of a possible building (MA110-090001-) is visible in the NW quadrant.
The enclosure was levelled at an unknown date in the past, and is barely discernible now at ground level -a slight undulation is apparent but the full circuit is difficult to trace. There is an electricity pole on the W edge of the enclosure.
Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère
Attached images:
MA110-090----_01.JPG Viewed from NW
MA110-090----_02.JPG Google Earth image dated 11/2016
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.