Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Thomastown (kilmaine By., Kilcommon Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.