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Ringfort - rath

Lissadrone East, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lissadrone East, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lissadrone East
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.27034, -9.27272
SMR number
MA014-109----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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 elevation. Not indicated on the OS 6-inch maps. This rath has been levelled. An inspection in 1995 recorded a raised circular area (diam. 31.5m) bisected centrally by a field fence on a roughly E−W axis. The portion of the rath which lay to N of the field fence had already been levelled at that date, but the S half of the rath remained clearly defined by a low enclosing bank, reduced to a scarp on the SW arc. Subsequently further damage to the rath took place: the S half of the rath was fully levelled, and the E−W field fence was removed. The outline of the S half of the rath can still be traced as a slight rise in ground level.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 21 June 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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