Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boherhallagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherhallagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00356, -9.08132
- SMR number
- MA049-033----
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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 undulating pasture, in the foothills of the Ox Mountains, straddling the contours of a natural rise around the base of which NE-E a stream flows. Circular area (34.5m N-S; 36.8m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and enclosed by a fosse and remnants of an external bank. The enclosing elements are adapted to the natural contours of the rise. The inner bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.3m at N) survives at SW–ENE but elsewhere is reduced to a scarp (H 2m). The fosse is evident only as a shallow depression (Wth 2.4m) at NNW-N but survives at NE-S as a terrace (Wth c. 4m) with a distinct external scarp (H 1.4m). Remnants of an outer bank (Wth c. 2-2.5m) in the form of a low rim of earth and stone border the fosse at S-SW. The interior is level but is slightly higher at N-NNE where a clump of hawthorn and brambles obscures a heap of stones and boulders, probably a field clearance cairn. The entrance may have been at the NW where there is a broadly slumped section of scarp (Wth 3m) facing a natural dip in external ground level. There is another ringfort (MA049-034) c. 100m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.