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Enclosure

Frenchgrove, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Frenchgrove, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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.

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