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Ringfort - rath

Townplots West, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Townplots West, 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
Townplots West
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Knockbeg Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Knockbeg Fort
Coordinates
54.21898, -9.24417
SMR number
MA015-043----

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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, on a rise in rolling terrain dotted with drumlin-like knolls. There are good views, particularly to W.
Raised circular area (22m E–W; 23m N–S) defined at NE–SE by remnants of a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m at E), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (H 1.5m at S, 0.8m at W), and enclosed by a fosse (2-2.4m at W) and at SE–N by an external bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.7m). At N and NE–E the external bank has been truncated by two intersecting field fences on E–W and N–S axes. A short length of the external bank has also been truncated at SSW by a quarry pit (diam. 8m). The centre of the interior appears very slightly higher tha, with a slight slope down from there to S. Blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles grow around the perimeter. There is a rath (MA015-042----) 165m to NW, and there is a cluster of raths, enclosures, possible barrows and a wedge tomb (MA015-044001- to MA015-044006-) c. 160m to SE.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 6 December 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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