Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dowagh West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowagh West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55070, -9.21905
- SMR number
- MA121-095----
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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 pasture, on a rise. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and on the 1929 edition as a D-shaped enclosure (c. 30m N–S; c. 30m E–W), delineated by hachuring SE-NE and bordered on the straight side at E by a N-S field boundary. Levelled during land reclamation.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.