Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumsheen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsheen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12284, -9.02786
- SMR number
- MA031-046----
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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 an area of undulating average pasture, located on a rise, which provides excellent views, restricted now to E by a farmstead. There is a spring well c. 100m to NW.
Roughly circular, raised area (diam. 31.6m NW-SE) defined at SE−WNW by an earthen bank (W 2.4m; ext. H 0.7m) with a low internal lip, and at NW-NE by a substantial scarp (H 2m). The bank is truncated at E by N−S field wall, and the scarp has been modified or truncated at N by a later E−W field fence, which borders a road. A section of the scarp (H 1.5) at NW was recut during construction of a farm track.
The interior is level. There is a local tradition that there is a souterrain (MA031-046001-) in the E half. A roughly D-shaped terrace (14.5m NW-SE; 10.7m NE-SW), defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) with a low internal lip, abuts the SW side of the rath, and is at a slightly lower level to it. Long grass in interior; brambles and hawthorn on bank.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.