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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
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.00705, -8.94174
SMR number
MA050-009----

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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

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

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

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