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Earthwork

Rathmeel, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Rathmeel, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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