Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymoneen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymoneen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockbrack Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockbrack Fort
- Coordinates
- 54.06985, -9.38483
- SMR number
- MA038-032----
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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 slight rise in an area of undulating rough and average pasture interspersed with areas of bog to NE and more extensive tracts to W and SW.
Slightly raised circular area (18m N–S; 18.6m E–W) defined by a bank (Wth 1.65-2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m). The external slope of the bank is cut to the vertical, the result of relatively recent modification. There are narrow breaks (max. Wth c. 1m) at SE, S, SW and W. The interior is level. The bank is thickly ringed with thorn bushes and brambles.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.