Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Treanybrogaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanybrogaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Trean Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Trean Fort (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.93470, -9.18753
- SMR number
- MA060-024----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
Situated on a prominent hill affording panoramic views over undulating pastureland, with a broad expanse of bog visible to E-SE. Ground falls away towards a stream located 30m to W. This possible ringfort is named ‘Trean Fort’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and is shown as a circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m), with a road on a roughly NE−SW axis passing through its centre. On the 1929 OS 6-inch edition, it is annotated as ‘Trean Fort (site of)’ and is indicated as a polygonal arrangement of field fences, which flank the E and W sides of the road. When inspected in 1996, these field fences were still intact, enclosing a subcircular area (max. diam. 39.5m NNE-SSW), which probably roughly preserved the outline of the original enclosure. Since that time, the field fences have been leveled. There is no visible trace of the W half of the enclosure in the field to W of the road, and farm buildings now overlie the part of the enclosure which lies to E of the road.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.