Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooneigh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneigh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09962, -9.23812
- SMR number
- MA039-006----
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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 pasture, located on a low ridge. This rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a ringfort-like circular enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as a broadly oval enclosure (35m NE–SW; 30m NW–SE) enclosed on the S half by a fosse, and incorporated into a field boundary on the E arc.
It was levelled in the 1980’s; there is no visible trace at ground level. According to local information it was enclosed by an earthen bank. Another rath (MA039-005----) is located on a higher ridge c. 200m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.