Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tawnagh Beg, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnagh Beg
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93957, -9.13921
- SMR number
- MA060-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, situated on a low drumlin hillock in rolling countryside. Views are limited by higher ground in most directions. This rath consists of a raised subcircular area (34.2m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.75m at SSW). The scarp has been incorporated into a later field boundary at NNW−SSE, and modified in parts by the addition of drystone facing. The rath is engulfed in scrub.
The attached images, taken on 22nd January 2018, are courtesy of Richard Crumlish, consultant archaeologist:
MA060-026----_01 Rath viewed from WSW
MA060-026----_02 Rath viewed from SW
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.