Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Breaghwy (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breaghwy (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07635, -9.10371
- SMR number
- MA040-039----
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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 low N−S ridge, with good views.
Raised roughly circular area (29.5m E−W; 27.3 N−S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.65m at E, 0.9m at W; ext. H 1.25m). At NW−NE the bank has been incorporated into or replaced by a field fence, faced internally and externally with drystone walling, which retains the curve of the rath. There is a break (Wth 1m) at NW and another (Wth 1m) at NE. At SE there is a low area in the bank with a line of stones on its inner edge, possibly a blocked up entrance gap. Immediately outside the bank at SW−SE is a low berm-like feature (Wth 1-3m; H 0.2m).
The interior is level, with a very a slight slope from centre down to E. Occasional boulders break the surface; there is a heap of stones to NE of centre. Grass cover; mature conifers growing in interior. There is a rath (MA040-040----) 100m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.