Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Shanaghmoyle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanaghmoyle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81485, -8.90507
- SMR number
- MA081-039----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
In lowlying rough, wet pasture, with rising ground to E.
An oval rise (35m E-W; 42m N-S; H 1.3m at E, 1.7m at W), domed in profile, with a slightly flattened top merging seamlessly with broadly sloping sides. It is boxed into the W end of a modern rectangular field so that the S, W and N edges of the rise are truncated by straight field fences flanked by field drains. Cultivation ridges traverse the rise, and there is a slight surface depression (diam. c. 3m) on the E side of the rise. This appears to be a natural feature, however, its regular shape and location in boggy pasture leaves open the possibility that it is a wetland habitation site.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.