Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathscanlan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathscanlan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94958, -8.93274
- SMR number
- MA062-051----
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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 flat expanse pasture, straddling the break of slope of a steep E-facing slope, which falls into a small N-S stream valley.
This enclosure is not shown on the 1837 edition OS 6-inch map; it is indicated on the 1919 edition map as a circular enclosure outlined by a solid line. On the 25-inch plan trees are shown in the interior. It is visible as a circular enclosure in an aerial photograph (OS 2 8787 -8; Roll 216, pr. 7; SMR file).
It has been levelled but the circular outline (c. 29m E-W; 28.5m N-S) can still be discerned as a cropmark. The cropmark is visible as a band (Wth 1.3m) of differential grass growth, indicting the circuit of the original enclosing element, probably a ditch. The W two thirds of the interior enclosed level ground but the E third encompassed a steep E-facing slope with a drop in height of c. 2.5m. A similarly enclosure (MA062-050) is located c. 100m to NNW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.