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Ringfort - rath

Ballindoo Or Doocastle, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballindoo Or Doocastle, 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
Ballindoo Or Doocastle
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.02171, -8.65720
SMR number
MA052-005----

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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)
  • 1811 · 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 at the NW end of a roughly NW−SE ridge, which provides good views, most extensive to S−SW over a flat expanse of bog which stretches S from the base of the ridge.
Slightly raised, broadly oval area (29.5m NNE−SSW; 24.3m ENE−WSW) defined by a bank. The bank (Wth 2.15m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.65m, at SW) is best preserved on the W arc, but has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) on the E arc, except at SE where a short section of bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m) is intact. At NW-N a portion (L 8m) of the bank has been dug away, at E a short semicircular section (L 4-5m) is dug out of the scarp, and the bank is levelled at SSE−S. The interior has a slight slope down towards the NE. A NE−SW field fence/property boundary cuts across the interior, and an E-W field fence clips the S edge of the rath. There is another rath (MA052-004----) 150m to NE.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 26 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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