Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgarvan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarvan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09589, -9.03157
- SMR number
- MA040-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a NNW−SSE rise/low ridge, with a fall of ground to NE and SE, in an area of sharply undulating terrain.
This enclosure, probably a rath, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular ringfort-like embanked enclosure and on the 1922 edition as a circular hachured enclosure (diam. 30-35m). It has been levelled; a low, grass-covered subcircular rise (diam. 25-30m), without clearly defined limits, is evident at the location.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 May 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.