Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilquire Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquire Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60316, -9.12809
- SMR number
- MA118-078003-
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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, incorporated into a field system (MA118-078006-). This enclosure is recorded in aerial photographs (CUCAP BDN 97 & 98, 1970; SMR file) as a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), possibly a cashel, with a roughly E-W central internal division, and a small roughly square structure or enclosure (dims. 5-8m) abutting the enclosing wall at SE. It was levelled during land reclamation. An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District (1994; p. 78, no. 373) recorded a 'circular mound (14.2m N-S; 13.2m E-W; H 2.44m) of earth and stone' in this area, which is likely to be a field clearance heap. Current aerial views suggest that the small structure, which abutted the SE of the enclsoure, is extant.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.