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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61398, -9.01823
- SMR number
- MA119-036----
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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
Encompassing a low natural rise, in lowlying pasture, with good views of surrounding landscape.
The base of a low oval rise is scarped to form an oval enclosure (48m NNE-SSW; c. 50m WNW-ESE; H c. 1.5m). It has a relatively small level area (c. 16m N-S; c. 10m E-W) on top from which ground gradually falls towards the perimeter, where it levels out for a width of 2-4m, at the outer edge of which is the scarp, reduced now to a slight undulation.
According to local information, the enclosure was once ringed with trees, but the trees were felled and the enclosing scarp was levelled. While it is not impossible that this is the remains of a ringfort, it is more likely that it was constructed as a decorative tree-ring on the Frenchgrove House estate. There is a very similar enclosure (MA119-035----) 140m to SW.
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.