Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Treanlaur (Gallen By., Attymass Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanlaur (Gallen By., Attymass Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06719, -9.05411
- SMR number
- MA040-079----
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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 an area of rough, rocky pasture, located on a NNW−SSE ridge, flanked at the base of the NW and SE slopes by streams. A hazel wood cloaks the ridge, mixed with clumps of blackthorn, hawthorn and dense ferns.
An oval enclosure (c. 25m N−S; c. 20m E−W) is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch map. The enclosure is extant, but is engulfed in blackthorn scrub which impeded inspection. The perimeter of the enclosure is defined by a stony scarp (H 0.8m, at SW), which is enhanced at NE by the steep natural fall of ground. In parts the scarp appears to be faced with drystone walling; there is much loose stone tumble on the slope at NE. The interior appears to be level, strewn with stones and boulders. This is probably a ringfort, possibly a cashel, but it is not possible to be definitive.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.