Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
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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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 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.