Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Oileán Mionnán, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oileán Mionnán
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.32765, -9.86600
- SMR number
- MA003-009----
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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
Located on elevated ground on the NW end of Kid Island which lies just W of Benwee Head, on the NE side of Broad Haven Bay. Circular area (26.5m NW–SE) defined by a low bank (max. Wth 2m; max. H 0.4m). The bank appears to be largely earthen with only an occasional stone evident. It is best preserved at the NW–N but is eroded out at E where there is now a small pool of standing water. There are remains of a possible house (MA003-009001-) in the W half of the interior. (Pers. comm. Michael Gibbons, 27th October 2015).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 29 October 2015
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Field boundary2 mi
- Signal tower2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.