Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumshinnagh (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumshinnagh (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95644, -8.88704
- SMR number
- MA062-032----
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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)
- 1841 · 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 on a N−S ridge bordering the W side of a stream valley. It is sited close to the break of slope on the E side of the ridge where the ground falls steeply to the banks of the stream. There are good views along the valley and N−NW over a tract of bogland.
When inspected in 1997, the rath was evident as a low sub-circular platform (26.6m N−S; 28m E−W) defined by a broadly sloping scarp (Wth slope 5-6m; H 0.7m at W, 1.4m at E). The scarp appeared to have been partly levelled in the past, and there were areas of shallow disturbance/quarrying along its N and S edges. In 2004 the rath was severely damaged when a large subrectangular pit (24m E−W; 12m N−S at E end, 6.5m N−S at W end; D 2m) was dug into the interior, extending through the centre across its full E−W extent.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.