Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloontally, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloontally
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09069, -9.25092
- SMR number
- MA039-004----
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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 gently elevated ground on the NE side of Lough Conn. The low elevation extends 300m to W, forming a small headland projecting into the lake, with a motte (MA039-003----) sited on the lake edge. A canalised stream flows into the lake at a small inlet c. 100m NE of the rath. To E ground falls away gently to expanses of lowlying flat, damp pasture.
This rath has been levelled, but it is possible to trace the outline of a circular area enclosed by two outer banks with two intervening fosses.
The central, slightly raised circular area (29m N–S; 28m E–W) is defined by a low, broadly-slumped scarp (Wth slope 3m; H 0.35-0.5m). It is encircled by a shallow depression (Wth 3-4m), indicating an infilled fosse. On the outer edge of the fosse, there is a bank, levelled now to a very low, broad rise (Wth 3-4m). Outside this a second fosse (W c. 2.5m) with an external bank (Wth 3-4m) can be traced as undulation at S–NNW, barely discernible elsewhere. A break in the enclosing elements at ENE, may indicate the location of the entrance.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.