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Enclosure

Knockafall, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Knockafall, 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
Knockafall
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.92832, -9.13297
SMR number
MA070-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On the N end of a N–S pasture ridge, overlooked by slightly higher ridges to the E and W. Recorded as a probable ringfort on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map which shows an oval-shaped enclosure (est. ext. diams. c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W). This map also records a small linear copse of trees (est. L c. 45m N-S; Wth c. 25m E-W) immediately to the W of the monument. Neither fort nor copse is recorded on subsequent edition of the OS map. No visible surface trace survives and modern field boundaries run N-S and E-W across the site. An upstanding ringfort (MA070-61----) lies c. 140m to the WSW.

Date of visit: 08-5-2025

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Nearby in the register

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

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