Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Rockfield (clanmorris By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfield (clanmorris By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76083, -8.95524
- SMR number
- MA092-062004-
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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
Located in pasture, with a gently fall of ground to SE.
This earthwork is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps; it is recorded in an aerial photograph (OS 2 4343 –4; Roll 216, pr. 19; SMR file).
Subrectangular area (16m NE–SW; 20m NW–SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at NE, 0.8m at SW), incorporated on the SE side into a later property fence. Stones protrude from the scarp in parts.
The interior surface is uneven with several hummocks and dips, and with stones protruding from the sod in parts, especially at the SE. At SW two parallel narrow, shallow trenches (Wth 0.9m) set 1.9m apart traverse the length of the earthwork on a NW-SE axis, possibly cultivation features. Overgrowth of hawthorn and brambles made examination difficult.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.