Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Hundred Acres, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hundred Acres
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55289, -9.12353
- SMR number
- MA121-202----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture in limestone terrain.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, but visible in aerial imagery. This monument was levelled in the past. Its original form is now uncertain. It appears to have been circular (diam. approx. 15-18m).
The remains consist of a low D-shaped rise or mound (c. 15m E−W; c. 8m N−S) with poorly defined broadly sloped sides on the curving S side, and bordered on the straight N side by an E−W drystone field wall, which rises up over the contours of the mound. On the E edge of the mound, a stone bank or mound (Wth c. 6m E−W, 2m N−S; H 0.75m) protrudes from beneath the E-W field wall, possibly a remnant of an original enclosing wall/bank.
Attached image:
MA121-202----_01.JPG Possible enclosing bank/wall, viewed from S
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.