Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortaneden (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaneden (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07588, -9.36516
- SMR number
- MA038-036----
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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 the S-facing shoulder of a prominent rise in an area of undulating terrain.
Circular area (23.6m E–W; 21m N–S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.6m at N, 0.2m at SW; ext. H 0.8m at N, 0.95m at SW) of earth and stone. The bank is very low internally at SW–W, and is reduced to a scarp in parts at E–S. Stones piled on top of the bank are probably the result of field clearance. Outside the bank at N there is a shallow depression (Wth 2.5m) that may be evidence of an enclosing fosse. The interior slopes down gently from N to S. There is a small heap of stones, most likely field clearance, in the W half.
The perimeter is thickly ringed with hawthorn, hazel, and brambles, and there are clumps of brambles in the interior. A field fence skirts the rath at SE. There is a cairn (MA038-156----) c. 30m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.