Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raish, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raish
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.11253, -9.19138
- SMR number
- MA030-070----
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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
Located in pasture at S end of a narrow, steep-sided N-S ridge, with excellent views in all directions. A rath (MA030-071----) is located c. 250m to ESE.
This possible rath is depicted as a subcircular enclosure (diam. 35-40m) on the 1837 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled and there are no remains visible at ground level. According to local information, the centre of the enclosure was deeply quarried out, and this would appear to tally with the depiction on the 1930 OS 6-inch map of a roughly circular hollow in the E half of the interior; a shallow, roughly circular surface depression on the ridge top appears to mark the original location.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.