Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathglass West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathglass West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.15759, -9.24164
- SMR number
- MA030-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pasture, located on top of an E–W ridge, with good views in all directions.
This enclosure is shown as a circular, ringfort-sized enclosure on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled, but the outline of a slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. c. 20m) can still be discerned.
There is a holy well (MA030-092001-) 160m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.