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Ringfort - rath

Carrownaglogh (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland

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Townland
Carrownaglogh (gallen By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.13635, -9.02807
SMR number
MA031-017----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 rise on the spine of a low E−W ridge. To N ground falls away to an area of wettish pasture, bordered by stream; there is a more gradual fall of ground to S.
This possible rath is shown as a roughly circular enclosure on the 1837-8 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps; on the 1922 edition it is incorporated into a field boundary at S−WNW. It has been levelled; the outline of a slightly raised oval area (c. 23m N-S; 15m E-W) can still be traced. Remnants of a bank/scarp (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7; Wth slope 2.4m) remain on the NE arc, but elsewhere the circuit is evident only as a slight undulation, and is barely discernible at S. It is bisected centrally by a property wall on a ENE-WSW axis.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 June 2018

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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