Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Roosky (costello By., Kilbeagh Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roosky (costello By., Kilbeagh Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00186, -8.67004
- SMR number
- MA051-004----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In a thicket of overgrowth immediately adjacent to a farmstead.
Raised circular area or platform (27.3m N−S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m, at NW). The bank is rather low and degraded on its internal slope.
The external slope of the bank at N merges with an E−W field fence. A N-S field fence, bordered by a track/road, clips the external face of the bank at W. There is a ramp-like gap (Wth 1.5m) in the bank at SE, and a broad, eroded gap (Wth c. 5m) at W.
The perimeter is ringed with sycamore and ash trees; there is a tangle of long grass, nettles and brambles in the interior. There is a possible moated site (MA051-003----) 80m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.