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
- 54.09462, -9.02903
- SMR number
- MA040-027----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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 elevated ground, with a fall of ground to N, in an area of sharply undulating terrain.
Raised circular area (diam. 25m E−W) defined by an earthen bank. The bank (Wth 5.4m at S; 5.6m at NNE; int. H 0.45m at S, 0.3m at NNE; ext. H 2m at S, 2.6m at NNE) has a low, internal stony lip, and a pronounced external slope. There is a low area (Wth 1m) in the bank at E, roughly lined with stones on the S side, which may be the site of an original entrance. There are several eroded gaps, broken down by farm stock, around the perimeter at W and N. A field fence, set 4-5m outside the bank, skirts the rath at ESE−SW, respecting its curve.
Interior under long grass and ferns; bank is thickly ringed with hazel, hawthorn and blackthorn scrub.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.