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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07268, -9.36229
- SMR number
- MA038-039----
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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 undulating pasture, located on top of a ridge providing good views to N.
This possible rath has been largely levelled. The outline of a broadly oval area (c. 45-50m E–W; c. 50-55m) can still be traced, bisected S of centre by a property fence on a roughly E–W axis. To S of the fence, an arc of enclosing bank (Wth 2.75m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m), with rough stone facing, survives SE–S, reduced S-SW to a stony scarp (ext. H 1m); to N of the property fence, the curve of the enclosure at WSW–ESE is defined only by an ephemeral, semi-circular undulation representing a levelled bank.
There are raths (MA038-037----; MA038-038----; MA038-040----) 100m to N, 150m to WSW, and 60m to SW respectively, and a mound (MA038-147----) 120m to ESE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.