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Ringfort - rath

Gortnadrehy, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortnadrehy, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortnadrehy
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.02165, -9.16557
SMR number
MA048-049----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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, utilising the contours of a natural rise, with good views of the surrounding undulating terrain. Oval raised area (21m N–S; 17m E–W) defined by a levelled bank. The bank has been reduced to a broadly sloping scarp which merges more or less seamlessly with the natural slope of the rise. The scarp is lowest at E-SW (Wth slope c. 5m, H 0.65m at S), with a noticeably slumped area at E probably indicating the original entrance. The fall of ground is steeper at W–NW, with a disused laneway, flanked by overgrowth-covered field banks, skirting the base of the slope at W. At N the scarp (Wth slope c. 4m, H c. 1m) merges with the natural slope giving an overall drop of c. 2m. The scarp retains a broad low internal lip which gives the interior a somewhat sunken or saucer-shaped profile. Grass cover, with a thicket of overgrowth at W edge of the interior. There is another rath (MA048-050001-) c. 100m to NE.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 18 February 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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