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Enclosure

Heath, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Heath, 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
Heath
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.64941, -8.99262
SMR number
MA111-064----

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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 the grounds of a ruined 19th-century country house, which stands c. 15m to W of the enclosure, with a range of farm buildings immediately to E.
This possible rath is shown on the 1930 OS 6-inch map as a circular hachured enclosure (diam. c. 25m). It survives as an oblong or roughly D-shaped platform (22m N–S; 18m E–W) defined S–W by a curving scarp (H 2m; Wth slope c. 4m), which retains a slight internal lip (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.1m) and probably preserve the original curve of the enclosure. Elsewhere there is evidence of considerable disturbance: The scarp W–NW is dilapidated and appears to have been modified or partly truncated in the past. At N the scarp (H 1.4m; Wth slope c. 3m) is clipped by an E–W farm road bordered by a wall. The E–SE side of the platform presents a linear vertical scarp (H 2.5-3m) resulting from the truncation of the enclosure to allow construction of a slatted shed, which stands immediately to E. The level top of the platform is engulfed in a thicket of laurel bushes. According to local tradition, soil excavated during the construction of the big house was added to the enclosure.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 17 February 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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