Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Boleymeelagh,Cregduff (Kilmaine By., Kilcommon Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boleymeelagh,Cregduff (Kilmaine By., Kilcommon Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63186, -9.08150
- SMR number
- MA119-004001-
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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 pasture in gently undulating terrain, on a small hillock at the base of the S-facing slope of a ridge, on top of which a rath (MA119-003----) is located.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A raised circular area enclosed by a possible fosse and external bank, and crossed centrally by a field boundary on a NNW−SSE axis, is recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: CUCAP AYR 85).
When inspected in 2000, the transecting NNW−SSE field wall was intact, but the rath (on both side of the wall) had been levelled. To W of the field wall, a raised semicircular area (c. 36m N−S; c. 22m E−W; H c. 1.7m), can be still be traced defined on the straight side by the wall; immediately E of the wall, a very slight rise (c. 16m E−W) can be traced at SE but the original E and NE portions of the rath are obliterated by a concrete silage pit (28m NNW−SSE; 13m NE−WSW).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.