Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahans, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahans
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09325, -9.15865
- SMR number
- MA039-024----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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, located close to break of slope on E side of a ridge, overlooking an expanse of damp, low-lying pasture, which stretches 500m E to the banks of the River Moy.
Raised circular area (27m E-W; 29m N-S) defined NW–NE by an earthen bank (Wth 4.9m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.9m at NNW), and elsewhere by a scarp (H 1m at S) with a broad external slope (Wth slope 5m). Outside the bank at N-NE there is a depression (Wth 3.5m; D 0.6m), which may be an original fosse, but there is no evidence for its continuation elsewhere around the circuit. There is a broad break (Wth c. 6m) in the bank at W. The interior is level; brambles cover much of the north half. The rath perimeter is ringed with ash and hawthorn trees.
There is an enclosure (MA039-023----) 250m downslope to NNE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.