Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Trouthill Or Knockbrack, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trouthill Or Knockbrack
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94412, -8.84267
- SMR number
- MA062-134----
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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 improved pasture, located on the broad, undulating top of a ridge, providing good views over surrounding grassland and flat expanses of bog. The Sonnagh River skirts the base of the ridge, c. 180m to SW.
This possible rath is shown on the 1837 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It enclosure has been levelled; there is no visible trace at ground level. It may have contained a souterrain (MA062-134001-).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 January 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.