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
- 54.00712, -8.93624
- SMR number
- MA050-010----
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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 at the E end of an E–W ridge. There is an abrupt fall of ground to S towards a flat expanse of reclaimed or wettish pasture. There is a modern cottage adjacent at NW and a farmyard at SW.
This ringfort has been modified in the relatively recent past, and incorporated into a system of later field fences. It is evident now as a slightly raised, oblong or sub-rectangular area (23.2m N–S; c. 16m E–W) defined at SW–NNW by a low, broadly slumped curving scarp (H 0.5m). The N edge of the enclosure is defined by a straight E–W field wall, which appears to have truncated the scarp. At NE–SW the scarp is incorporated into an earth and stone field fence (H 1.3m at S), bordered internally along the W side by a shallow field ditch (Wth 1m.; D 0.2m). The interior is level, with an uneven surface. The perimeter at E–SW is engulfed in overgrowth
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.