Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garrymore, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrymore
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62031, -9.00311
- SMR number
- MA119-037----
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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
Broadly oval platform (56.4m ENE-WSW; 41.6m NNW-SSE) with a well-defined perimeter scarp (H 1.6m at N, 0.9m at S), immediately outside which are remnants of a fosse and outer bank.
The fosse (Wth 2.6m at N, 2m at S; ext. D 0.9m at N , 0.4m at S) is evident at S−NE, and is defined on its outer edge at S-NW by the outer bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m at S). At N-E the fosse serves as a field boundary, merging with a field ditch that extends beyond the enclosure. It is probably that this section of the fosse was re-dug in the modern era; it is thickly planted with hawthorn trees. A straight field bank and field ditch on a roughly N-S axis, overlie the line of the fosse at E
The interior ground level is higher in the W half, with a gradual slope down from there to N, E and SE. There are low areas in the scarp, eroded by farm stock, at N and E and a broad slumped area of scarp at SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 August 2023
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