Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rappacastle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rappacastle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13770, -9.25234
- SMR number
- MA030-020----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 gently undulating pasture, located on a rise with a fall of ground to SW, overlooking an expanse of lowlying grassland.
Shown on the 1838 and 1930 edition OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (c. 50m N−S; c. 40m E−W), covered with trees. The hachuring on the 1930 edition depicts an enclosing fosse. This enclosure has been levelled; the faint contours of a broadly oval rise (c. 24m E-W; c. 30m N-S), sloping slightly to SE, can be discerned at ground level. In current aerial views, a vegetation mark can be seen defining a roughly circular area (diam. 40-45m), truncated on the W side by a N−S field fence.
It is located on the former demesne land of Rappa Castle (MA030-019----). There is a burial ground (MA030-021----) 260m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.