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Field boundary

Cashel (Kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field boundary, Cashel, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cashel (Kilmaine By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.68768, -9.14483
SMR number
MA110-014003-

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David 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

Associated with a possible cashel (MA110-014001----).
Knox (1911, 302) recorded 'low banks of earth run north from the east and west ends [of the cashel], and turn to join and enclose a rectangular space of about 40 yards by 20 yards [c. 37m by 18m]. The banks, much broken down, are like common field banks…'. Knox interpreted these as part of a possible bailey extending to N of the cashel which he suggested was a small motte.
The banks noted by Knox are no longer evident. Slight surface undulations immediately to NW of the cashel hint at a possible field division or cultivation plot but this is very uncertain. Straight field boundaries/field walls, engulfed in overgrowth, extend roughly N−S and delimit the E, N and W sides of the modern rectilinear field, a space much larger than that specified by Knox; the E field boundary clips the outer edge of the cashel platform and clearly post-dates it.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 1 October 2021

References

Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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