Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonbrone, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbrone
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10702, -9.23851
- SMR number
- MA030-067----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a rise with good views over the surrounding rolling grassland. There is a gradual fall of ground to S and E.
Slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 38m) defined SE–N by remnants of an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-3.7m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.1m at SE, 1.45m at W). The bank is evident mainly as a scarp with a low internal lip. The entire NE quadrant (17m N–S; 21.5m E–W) of the rath has been quarried out to a depth of c. 3m. A low field bank on a N–S axis abuts the bank at SW and its line is continued N through the W half of the interior as a post and wire fence. Grass cover.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 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.