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Ringfort - rath

Tawnaghmore Lower, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tawnaghmore Lower, 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
Tawnaghmore Lower
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.19958, -9.21928
SMR number
MA022-034----

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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 at the NE end of a roughly E–W ridge, with extensive views to N-NE over Killala town and Killala Bay. The townland boundary lies immediately to NE.
Raised oval area (34m NW–SE; c. 27m NE–SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m at NW, 3m at SE; int. H 0.7m at NW, 0.25m at SW; ext. H 1.3m at NW, 1.5m at SE). The bank is low internally, and is largely reduced to a scarp at N–SE, where it coincides with the contours of a natural break of slope. There are two eroded breaks (Wth 0.4m and 0.8m) in the bank at NNW, where a cattle track enters the rath. The interior has a gentle slope down from the centre to the N-NE. A slightly raised area (diam. c. 4-5m) can be discerned in the SE quadrant, but its outline is not clearly defined, and its significance is unclear. There is a rath (MA022-090----) 250m to W.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 10 June 2019

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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