Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Drumagh (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumagh (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00599, -8.94727
- SMR number
- MA050-006----
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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 the gentle S-facing slope of an E–W ridge. Overlooked to NE by a cashel (MA050-007001) which is c. 60m upslope to NE on the crown of the ridge.
Not shown on the 1838 edition OS 6-inch map; depicted on the 1929 edition as a roughly square enclosure (max. dim. 20-25m) incorporated into field walls on the W, N and E sides, with a shallow arc of hachuring on the S side.
This ringfort was levelled in 1980 during land reclamation works. An ephemeral C-shaped surface undulation or cropmark, curving SW–NW, outlines the W arc. The NW–SE field fence that bordered the E side of the enclosure is extant, and is lined with large heaps of stones, boulders and field clearance debris resulting from the removal of the S, W and N boundaries of the enclosure. Abutting the E side of the NW–SE fence a low stony rise forms a short arc, possibly representing a remnant of the E arc of the original enclosing wall. There is a souterrain (MA050-006001-) in the interior (SRM file: OPW field notes 1980).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.