Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonbreedia, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonbreedia
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04501, -9.37366
- SMR number
- MA038-109----
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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
On a slight rise in average grassland, with an expanse of rough heathery pasture immediately to SW-W.
Slightly raised circular area (diam. 36.5m N-S) defined a scarp/bank. At NE–SW the scarp (W of slope 1.7m; H 1.3m at NE; 1.5m at SE) has a relatively vertical external face, which exhibits remnants of stone facing, suggesting it has been modified to serve as a field fence. At SW-W a short length of bank (W 2.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) survives; it has been levelled to a slight undulation at W-NNE.
A property wall, on a NNE-SSW axis, bisects the interior to E of centre. Another field wall, reduced now to a low stony rise, extends E-W through the W half of the interior, intersecting at its E end with the NNE-SSW wall. In the E half of the interior there is a low stony bank (W 2.6m; H 0.4m; L 8m) forming a shallow arc E–NW. The rath perimeter is ringed with overgrowth at N-W. There is another rath (MA038-108----) 200m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.