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Ringfort - rath

Sonnagh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Sonnagh, 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
Sonnagh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.95700, -8.83554
SMR number
MA062-033----

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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)
  • 1857 · 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 top of a ridge with a natural fall of ground to N.
The monument consist of the W half of an originally circular rath. It is depicted as a D-shaped embanked enclosure on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, indicating that the E portion of the rath had already been removed by 1837. The extant remains consist of a slightly raised, D-shaped area (39.4m N–S; cord 22m E–W) defined on the curving side S–N by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.35m). A field fence/property boundary defines the straight side at E. To E of the fence, no trace of the rath is evident at ground level; the ground surface here is somewhat sunken and it appears that this portion of the rath was quarried out. According to local tradition, there is a children’s burial ground (MA062-033001-) in the rath. The bank is ringed by hawthorn, and erosion by farm stock is evident in parts.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 November 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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