Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Knockaunakill, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunakill
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75682, -9.07388
- SMR number
- MA091-044----
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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 rough, damp pasture, located adjacent to a stream.
Compact, kidney-shaped mound (15.2m NW–SE; 10m NE–SW; H 0.6m at N, 1m at S) with the trough area indicated by a depression (Wth 2m) between the ‘arms’ of the mound opening onto the edge of the rivulet at the SW. Two hawthorn bushes are growing in the trough hollow.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.