Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Churchfield (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchfield (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78558, -8.91489
- SMR number
- MA092-096----
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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, overlooking to S a flat expanse of bog and reclaimed pasture.
Listed in the RMP (1997) as a possible earthwork on the basis of a roughly circular feature visible in an aerial photograph (GSI M 97 -8; Roll 213, pr. 31; SMR file). At this location is a low rounded hillock, domed in profile. Inspected in 1998, the crown of the hill could not be examined due to a dense covering of gorse and brambles. The nature of this feature is uncertain.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.