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Ringfort - rath

Breaghwy (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Breaghwy, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Breaghwy (Tirawley By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.07126, -9.11019
SMR number
MA039-059----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 on a gentle W-facing slope, giving good views over a flat expanse of mixed pasture and bog. This rath is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as a semicircular hachured enclosure (diam. c. 25m), open to the W, and bisected on the N edge by a field fence on an E-W axis.
The two third of the rath which lies to S of the E-W field fence was levelled in the early 20th-century, and no visible trace is now evident at ground level. To the N of the fence, a portion of the rath survives as a D-shaped area (23m E-W; 6.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.5m). There are three eroded breaks (Wth 1.6-2m) in the bank. Outside the bank at NW is a discrete shallow depression (Wth 2m), which appears to be an area of disturbance rather than evidence of a fosse.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 27 January 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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