Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Knocknaganny, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknaganny
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60982, -9.09612
- SMR number
- MA119-040003-
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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 the vicinity of a cashel (MA119-040001-), in rolling limestone grassland, broken by expanses of karst and high rock-outcropping.
An aerial photograph (SMR file: CUPAP AYR 87 & 88 & 89) records a field system of subrectangular walled fields, in which cultivation ridges are visible. It surrounds the cashel and extending to E and S of it, but post-dates it. It is most likely associated with a cluster of ruined rectangular vernacular houses visible in the CUCAP photograph at a distance of c. 55m to SE of the cashel. This settlement is recorded on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, where five houses/buildings are shown, with an access road approaching from S and E; it is not shown on later map editions.
Almost all trace of the settlement, field walls and cultivation ridges -bar a few slight surface undulations -were removed during reclamation works.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.