Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockatemple, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatemple
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89235, -9.10913
- SMR number
- MA071-193----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a steep NW-facing slope.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch mapping. Listed in the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) as an enclosure on the basis of a roughly rectangular feature visible in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 692 -7; Roll 217, pr. 24).
A rectangular area (c. 36m NNE−SSW; c. 34m E−W) is defined by a low, inward-facing scarp, lined with overgrowth, on the N, E and S sides It is open on the W side. A NE−SW field wall crosses the centre of the enclosure. The interior slopes steeply to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.