Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banagher, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26987, -9.22452
- SMR number
- MA015-005----
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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 average coastal pasture, located on a low elevation overlooking Killala Bay to E, and with good views over rolling fields to S and W.
Slightly raised circular area (17.4m N-S; 16.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m at NNE; 4.4m at SW; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m at NNE, 1.4m at SW). The bank is generally low and degraded, with stones protruding randomly on top along the W half. It is broadly slumped at SW. Where sections of the bank have been eroded by farm stock, its core is revealed to be composed of hard-packed stony sandy soil. There is no clearly defined entrance feature. The interior appears to be slightly higher in the W third, but is generally level and featureless. Remnants of levelled field fences can be seen abutting the bank at S and NE. A N−S road lies 3m W of the rath. There is a possible rath (MA015-074----) c. 200m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.