Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bushfield, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bushfield
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64048, -9.07059
- SMR number
- MA119-077----
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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
In pasture, located on a slight rise in gently undulating terrain broken by limestone outcropping. Ground rises gently to E. Bushfield House, an 18th-century country house (now in ruins) and associated farm buildings are located 260m to SE.
This possible rath is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled and the remains are very low profile at ground level.
Subcircular area (32m N−S; c. 30m E−W) defined on the W arc by a low stony rise/bank (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.2-0.3m) from which large stones protrude, and elsewhere by a barely discernible undulation. Traces of a linear N−S feature –possibly a levelled field wall −extend from the perimeter at N through the NE quadrant towards the centre of the enclosure. Levelled field boundaries/walls merge with the enclosure at SW and NW and E –they are evident as low linear grass-covered rises. A single hawthorn tree stands on the perimeter at NW.
Attached images:
MA119-077----_01.JPG Enclosure viewed from SW
MA119-077----_02.JPG Stony bank on W arc
MA119-077----_03.JPG Enclosure viewed from E
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.