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
- Rathleenan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathleenan
- Coordinates
- 54.07419, -9.36309
- SMR number
- MA038-037----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 pasture, on a ridge, with a steep fall of ground to NW–N, and extensive views over the surrounding sharply undulating terrain.
This possible rath is shown on the 1838 and the 1922 OS 6-inch maps as a circular, ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 25m), named ‘Rathleenan’. It was destroyed during land reclamation; there is no visible trace at ground level. Field boundaries which abutted and lay adjacent to the rath have also been removed. There is an enclosure (MA038-039----) c. 100m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.