Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Croftonpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croftonpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13757, -9.18243
- SMR number
- MA030-033----
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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 on a rise in gently undulating terrain, with good views to E over lowlying wettish grassland. A farmyard lies immediately to N.
The dilapidated outline of a roughly circular, raised area (diam. c. 30), defined by an irregular, degraded scarp or slope, can be discerned. At E the scarp merges with a natural fall of ground giving an overall height of c. 2m. A pronounced depression (Wth c. 3) outside the scarp at S may be an original fosse, but at the time of visit was largely obscured by an infill of domestic refuse. A linear depression or gully (Wth 3.5-4m; D 0.7m), on a NE−SW axis, cuts through the full width of the interior, possibly the remnants of a laneway. It is flanked on the W side by another linear depression or ditch (Wth c. 3m; D 0.7m). A farm road (Wth c. 3m), leading to the farmyard at N, skirts the rath, truncating its edge at the SW−W.
Covered in rough grass, with blackthorn and hawthorn scrub and clumps of brambles.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.