Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carn (kilmaine By., Ballinchalla Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (kilmaine By., Ballinchalla Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58849, -9.26308
- SMR number
- MA117-042002-
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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 hilltop. Earthen bank (H 2.1m), levelled NE to S, with internal fosse, on SW and NW to N, enclosing circular-shaped area (diam 142m N-S). Enclosing element shown intact on OS map (1838). Bank overlain on S by stone field boundary. Interior contains cairn (MA117-042001-). Possible standing stone (H 0.6m) inside bank to SW. Old field walls ran through interior of site.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 51.
Date of upload: 7 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.