placenamesScardaun
Scardán
Scardaun’s eastern townland preserves traces of two different kinds of building: an early twentieth-century house and an undated enclosure.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Scardán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Scardaun · English · main form
Place & story
A house in Scardaun East
The architectural inventory records a substantial two-storey house in Scardaun East as part of south Mayo’s early twentieth-century domestic heritage. Its balanced three-bay front has sash windows and a central doorway with side lights. A hipped slate roof and paired brick chimneys complete the composition. The survey found that considerable original fabric survived despite disuse. [2]
The enclosure beside Esker South
An enclosure on the boundary between Scardaun East and Esker South survives as a curved earthwork beside a road. Archaeologist Jane O’Shaughnessy describes a broad, low bank and suggests the road cut away part of an originally circular enclosure. A northern break may have been an entrance. Its appearance does not establish a construction date, and a separate low bank across the road cannot securely be connected with it. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Civil parish
- Crossboyne
- Coordinates
- 53.65745, -9.01353 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1375330 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Scardaun. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Scardaun East house, NIAH31311130 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Esker South/Scardaun East enclosure, SMRMA111-085----, 27 July 2021 · Jane O’Shaughnessy, Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.