Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Rathmeel, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmeel
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12944, -9.11961
- SMR number
- MA030-042----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on elevated ground on N side of a narrow stream valley. A field drain lies immediately to W, bordering the garden of a modern two-storey house. To SE there is a spring well in a concrete housing.
This monument is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure or earthwork, and on the 1930 edition as a roughly circular hachured feature (diam. c. 10m). It consists of a low, D-shaped earthen platform (c.7m E-W; 4.5m N-S; H 0.2-0.3m) defined on the curving N side by a slightly raised rim (Wth c. 0.5-0.7m), incorporating a few stones, and truncated on the straight side to S by modern disturbance. Its original form and function is unclear.
According to local information, an area of disturbed ground immediately to SE-S was used in the 1940’s as a pond for soaking flax, but has since been partly infilled.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.