Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymanagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymanagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12390, -9.23459
- SMR number
- MA030-046----
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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 pasture, located on a gentle, E-facing slope, with flat, wettish land to S, and good views generally.
Roughly circular, raised area (c. 23-25m N–S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.7m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.65m, at W), and enclosed by a fosse (Wth 3.5-4m, 2-2.5m at base), with remnants of an external bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 0.5m, at W) on S–NW. On the W half of the rath, the inner bank is broadly slumped; on its inner face the slump merges with an E-facing slope in the W half of the interior. At N–SSE the inner bank is partly levelled, the fosse infilled and the external bank levelled, however it is difficult to examine this area as a substantial heap (H 1.5-2m) of field clearance debris has been piled up against the rath at E and S.
The interior is largely obscured by overgrowth, and the perimeter is densely ringed with trees and brambles.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.