Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annaghroe Island, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghroe Island
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06023, -9.22448
- SMR number
- MA039-068----
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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
Located on the E side of Annaghroe Island in the NE end of Lough Conn. The island lie close to the shore and is accessible via a causeway (MA039-069), marked as ‘Ford’ on the 1930 OS 6-inch map.
Subcircular earthen platform (27.6m N–S; 31.9m E–W) defined by a broadly slumped, partly levelled scarp (H 1.5m at SE, 0.7m at N; Wth slope 4-5m), which retains a hint of raised internal rim in part at S and W. Field boundaries shown abutting or adjacent to the rath at W and N on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps have all been removed.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.