Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bunaneraghtish, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunaneraghtish
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13714, -9.23025
- SMR number
- MA030-023----
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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 a N–S ridge, with a gentle slope on the E side falling towards a level expanse of grassland extending for c. 400m E to the shores of Cloonagh Lough.
Shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as an oval, hachured ringfort-sized enclosure (c. 35m N−S; c. 25m E−W). This enclosure, which was probably a rath, has been levelled; the outline of a very slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. c. 23m) is visible at ground level. An E-W road or laneway, shown on the OS 6-inch maps, which lay immediately to S, has also been removed.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.