Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rappacastle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rappacastle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14159, -9.25677
- SMR number
- MA030-018----
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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 pasture, located on a rise in undulating terrain.
Shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circular ringfort-sized enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as an oval enclosure, planted with trees. No visible surface trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.