Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Scotchfort, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scotchfort
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08463, -9.22766
- SMR number
- MA039-035----
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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 N–S elevation, providing good views, especially to E and S, of the surrounding gently undulating terrain. This rath is shown on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as an oval embanked enclosure (c. 25m NW–SE; c. 20m NE–SW). It has been levelled. The outline can still be traced as a low circular undulation (c. 20m NNW–SSE; c. 18m ENE–WSW), clipped on the NW side by a property boundary on a NNE–SSW axis.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 February 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.