Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlehill (Tirawley By., Crossmolina. Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlehill (Tirawley By., Crossmolina. Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisduff
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisduff
- Coordinates
- 54.05094, -9.31941
- SMR number
- MA038-121----
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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 improved pasture, located on a low NW–SE gravel ridge with extensive views to N–SE.
This possible rath is named ‘Lisduff’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, where it is shown as a circular enclosure with trees planted in the interior. The E two thirds of the enclosure have been levelled, but the outline of the original circular area (c. 27m NE–SW; c. 28m NW–SE) can still be discerned.
The enclosing bank on the W arc is upstanding. It consists of a broadly slumped scarp (Wth 3.3m-c. 5m; ext. H 1.6m), topped with stones, and is largely obscured by dense overgrowth. Immediately outside this, and mirroring its curve, are tumbled remnants of stone-built field wall. At NNE–SSW the enclosing bank has been levelled, but its curving outline can still be traced as a slightly raised undulation, most clearly visible at NE and S–SSW, where it coincides with the ridge contours. A field fence, on a NE–SW axis, extends across the NW edge of the enclosure. There is a possible rath (MA038-122----)150m to NW, and an enclosure (MA038-123----)135m to SSW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.