Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annagh Island (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh Island (Tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06814, -9.23659
- SMR number
- MA039-060----
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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, located on the S half of Annagh Island in the NE end of Lough Conn. It utilises a rise with a fall of ground on the E side, and has excellent views across the lake and E to the mainland.
This enclosure, most likely a rath, has been levelled. It is indicated on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m), with an E–W field fence extending to E and W of the bank. The circular outline (diam. 35m) of the rath which can still be traced, bisected by the E-W field fence. The N arc of the rath is barely discernible; the S half is evident as a low semicircular platform defined by a partly levelled scarp (H 0.7m).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 February 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.