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Enclosure

Thomastown (Kilmaine By., Kilcommon Par.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Thomastown (Kilmaine By., Kilcommon Par.), 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
Thomastown (Kilmaine By., Kilcommon Par.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60429, -9.08747
SMR number
MA119-041001-

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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

In improved pasture, located on level ground in gently rolling grassland.
A circular embanked enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, with a field boundary, on a NE–SW axis, clipping the SE side, and a second enclosure (MA119-041002-) located c. 10m to SE. It is not shown on the 1915 map edition.
When inspected in 2000, the enclosure was evident as a low, roughly circular platform (21.5m N–S; 23.6m E–W) defined by a broadly sloping levelled scarp (H 0.8m, at N, H 0.45m at S; Wth slope 5m at N, 6m at S), outside which was a possible fosse visible as a slight depression. A subsequent inspection in 2012 found that the enclosure had been entirely levelled during land reclamation works. An ephemeral cropmark of slightly yellowish grass marked the location.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 23 July 2012.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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