Enclosure, Lagcurragh, Co. Mayo

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Enclosure, Lagcurragh, Co. Mayo

In the pasture at Lagcurragh in County Mayo, there is an enclosure that no longer exists, at least not in any form the eye can detect.

No earthwork rises from the grass, no ditch interrupts the ground, no stone marks a boundary. The site survives only in cartographic memory, and even there its record is incomplete.

The enclosure does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, which means that either it had already been obscured or reduced by that point, or the surveyors simply did not record it. By the time the 1919 edition was produced, something was visible enough to note: a roughly oval shape, oriented approximately north to south, measuring around twenty metres at its longest and fifteen metres across, marked with hachures, the short radiating lines cartographers used to indicate an earthen bank or raised feature. Even then it was in trouble. A field boundary running northwest to southeast had either been built across its southwestern edge or had cut into it, incorporating or truncating the original form. Now there is no visible trace at ground level. The site sits at the east-northeast end of a low ridge running roughly east to west, with a stream some hundred metres to the southwest, a position typical of enclosed sites that used natural topography for drainage and modest elevation.

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