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Enclosure in Castlehill (tirawley By., Crossmolina. Par.)

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Enclosure in Castlehill (tirawley By., Crossmolina. Par.)
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Castlehill enclosure is a faint ten-metre circle in Mayo pasture, overlooking the Fiddaunglass river and sitting twenty metres north of a known rath. It vanished from the 1838 map, reappeared in 1922 as a hachured mark, and now resists identification as barrow, mound or hut. A field fence cuts beside it, perhaps consuming the eastern edge, while the grass keeps the shape hidden but intact.
In pasture, in undulating terrain overlooking a small river, the Fiddaunglass, c. 300m to NE. This monument is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 1922 edition as a small hachured circle (diam. c. 10m). A slight rise in ground level marks the location; no other visible trace is evident. Its original form and function is unknown; it may have been a barrow, mound or hut site. A roughly N–S field fence lies immediately to E, or possibly overlies the original E edge of the monument. There is a rath (MA038-116----) located 20m to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2019

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