Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clooncorraun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncorraun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61739, -9.28150
- SMR number
- MA117-017----
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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 undulating, cleared pasture. Shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and on the 1929 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval walled enclosure (diam. c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) with the interior bisected slightly to NE of centre by a wall on a NW-SE axis. Also recorded in an aerial photograph (GSI M 118 -9; Roll 198, pr. 29) (SMR file). Levelled; no visible trace. In An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District (Lavelle 1994; p. 51, no. 342) an oval-shaped mound of clearance material (diam. 38m; H 2.3m) is recorded as occuping the site, possibly overlying the remains. In fact, the mound lies c. 45m to SE of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 November 2013
References
Lavelle, D. 1994 An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.