Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathfran, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathfran
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24551, -9.22987
- SMR number
- MA015-072----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, located on a terrace on a SE-facing slope overlooking mouth of Palmerstown River. Immediately to NW the ground rises steeply. There is a farmyard immediately to SE.
This ringfort is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a slightly raised circular area (26.7m NW-SE; 25.7m NE-SW) defined by a low, sod-covered stony bank (Wth 3.9m at S; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m). The bank is particularly low and degraded at N (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.1m). The interior, which slopes slightly down to S-SE, has an uneven surface, strewn with much sod-covered stone. There is a very low section of bank at E, and a break (Wth 2.7m) in the bank at N, but it is unclear if either represents an original entrance. Remnants of a stony bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m), on a NW-SE axis, bisects the interior roughly centrally. In the E half of the interior there is a possible house (MA015-072002-).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.