Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Houndswood South,knocknageeha (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Houndswood South,knocknageeha (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53782, -9.16808
- SMR number
- MA121-144----
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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. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure, and on the later 25 inch plan as a broadly oval enclosure (c. 55m NE-SW,; c. 45m NW-SE) bisected centrally by the townland boundary. Not shown on the 1929 OS 6-inch. Levelled; no visible surface traces. 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. 377.
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.