Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Seefin, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seefin
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64052, -9.04125
- SMR number
- MA119-008----
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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 gently undulating grazing land; views good but not extensive.
Shown on the 1838 and 1915 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. 30-35m) incorporated into later field boundaries on the N arc with a farmstead immediately to NW.
The enclosure has been subsumed into a rectangular orchard dotted with apple trees and a few elder bushes. The orchard is enclosed on E, S and W by straight field walls, and is bordered on the N side by a row of three farm sheds. Mature conifers grow all around the perimeter of the orchard, just inside the line of the enclosing wall. The enclosed space (34.4m ENE−WSW; 23.3m NNW−SSE) is level and appears to be slightly raised relative to exterior ground level –this is most noticeable on the W half where the ephemeral outline of a curving rise –possibly a levelled bank- can still be traced.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31st May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.