Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Frenchgrove, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frenchgrove
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62558, -9.02753
- SMR number
- MA119-011002-
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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 elevated ground with very good views.
A circular enclosure (diam. 35-40m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It is enclosed within a walled polygonal enclosure (max. diam. c. 95m), with an intervening gap of c. 20m between the circular enclosure and the outer wall. The polygonal enclosure is also recorded on the 1915 map edition but the circular enclosure is not shown.
There is no visible trace of the circular enclosure at ground level. Most of the outer polygonal enclosure has also been removed, bar a section of the wall on the W side, outside which there is a farm road.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31st May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Deer parkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.