Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballykine Upper, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykine Upper
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54684, -9.33391
- SMR number
- MA120-035----
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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 forestry. Circular area (55m N-S; 56m E-W), enclosed by dump construction stone bank (H 2.7m, Wth 3.7m). Bank topped on N by stone field fence. Gaps in E and W allow track to run through the site's interior, which contains much clearance.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 250.
Date of upload: 15 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.