Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Annefield, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annefield
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62174, -9.06186
- SMR number
- MA119-026----
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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 good pastureland, originally part of the estate of Annefield House, which was built in 1795 and is located c. 200m to W.
Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6–inch map; indicated on the 1915 edition as a large oval enclosure (c. 35m E-W; c. 60m N-S), with a wooded interior. At this location is a natural elongated oval hillock. There is now no visible trace of an enclosing element. According to local information, the hillock was once encircled at its base by a field wall and planted with a mix of deciduous and coniferous trees. The trees and the field wall were removed during land reclamation in the 20th-century. This enclosure appears to have been a tree-ring/estate feature in the grounds of Annefield house.
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.