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
- 53.61856, -9.02549
- SMR number
- MA119-034----
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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 a plateau with good views in all directions; the Partry Mountains delimit the far horizon SW-NW.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions.
It has been partly levelled. The remains consist of a low, subcircular platform (24.5m NW-SE; c. 21m NE-SW) defined by a broadly sloping scarp. A field bank, with a silted-up field ditch on its N side, crosses the NW third of the enclosure on a NE-SW axis. The portion of the enclosure lying to N of the field fence is better preserved with a relatively well defined scarp (H 0.5-0.75m; Wth slope c. 2m), surrounded by a small grove of pine trees, four of which are planted on the enclosure scarp.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 August 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.