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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00705, -8.94174
- SMR number
- MA050-009----
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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
Located on top of an E–W ridge, with an abrupt and steep fall of ground to S.
This enclosure, probably a rath, is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure, and on the 1929 edition as a walled enclosure. It has been levelled and a modern house, now derelict, occupies the N half of the interior.
The roughly circular outline (diam. c. 28m) can still be traced, defined at ENE–E by a curving undulation, at ESE–SW by a slight scarp merging with the natural slope, and at WSW–NNW by an ephemeral continuation of the curve, now incorporated into a N–S line of conifers. The N edge of the enclosure is clipped by an E–W trackway/road. The S half of the interior is grassy and featureless. Trees and ring the perimeter. A ruined shed abuts the NW edge of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.