Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.76241, -8.93539
- SMR number
- MA092-097----
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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 improved pasture, bordered to E by boggy ground.
Listed in the RMP (1997) as a possible enclosure on the basis of a roughly circular cropmark, truncated on W side by a straight field fence, visible in an aerial photograph (GSI M 98 -7; Roll 213, pr. 30; SMR file).
This feature corresponds on the ground with a roughly circular shallow depression (diam. c. 18-20m; max. D c. 0.5m at SE) bordered by a low natural rise to SE. The depression is not sharply defined; the surrounding ground grades seamlessly with its sides. The NNE–SSW field boundary has been removed. There is an irregular-shaped hollow c. 25m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.