Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kildun Beg, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildun Beg
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55552, -9.24184
- SMR number
- MA121-040----
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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
Aerial photograph (GSI M 179 -80; Roll 197, pr. 26) shows circular area defined by cropmark of fosse (est. max. diam. c. 47m). Possibly a ringfort.
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. 459E.
Date of upload: 22 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.