Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Houndswood North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Houndswood North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53711, -9.20540
- SMR number
- MA121-140----
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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 SW-facing slope, in pasture. Marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map (1838) as circular enclosure, and on the later 25 inch plan as an oval enclosure (35m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE). Not shown on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface traces.
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. 365.
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.