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Ringfort - unclassified

Drumagh (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Drumagh, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

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

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