Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Sonnagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sonnagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96406, -8.81744
- SMR number
- MA062-035----
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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)
- 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 narrow E−W ridge at the break of slope on the N side. There are extensive views to N−NW where the ground falls away precipitously to a flat expanse of bog. A stretch of bog also borders the S side of the ridge.
This possibly a rath is shown on the 1919 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m). It has been levelled. The outline can still be traced on the N arc as a slight scarp (H 1.3m), which merges with the natural fall of ground, and elsewhere as a slight surface undulation.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.