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Ringfort - rath

Newtown (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newtown, 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
Newtown (Tirawley By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rathnashuppy
Latest-edition OS map
Rathnashuppy
Coordinates
54.06922, -9.22051
SMR number
MA039-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a gentle S-facing slope, with very good views towards the NE shoreline of Lough Conn located 250m to W.
This rath is named ‘Rathnashuppy’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. It is shown on the 1838 edition as a circular embanked enclosure, but on the 1930 edition only the W half is shown. It is evident as a slightly raised circular area (33.2m N–S; c. 33m E–W) defined on the W half by a low earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.4m, at N), reduced to a scarp (ext. H 1-1.2m) in parts at S–W; the E half of the rath has been levelled to a barely discernible undulation. A N-S field fence cuts through the centre of the rath. The interior is grass-covered; hawthorn grows on the perimeter at W. There is a rath (MA039-062----) located 100m to E.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 March 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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