Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonaghboy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonaghboy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95426, -8.90086
- SMR number
- MA062-059----
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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 the N side of a knoll/small ridge. There are extensive views, especially to N where the ground falls away to a flat expanse of pasture and bog.
Raised, roughly oval (c. 35m N-S; c. 27m E-W) defined in a broad curve on the W arc by a pronounced earthen scarp (Wth slope 3.5m; H 1.6m, at W). The E half of the enclosure is defined by the shallow curve of a broadly sloping natural fall of ground with no evidence of a man-made enclosing element. A short section of bank, stone faced on the external slope, is evident at SE, which may be a remnant of an original enclosing bank now incorporated into an E-W field fence. A narrow, shallow gully (Wth 0.6m) cuts through the scarp at SSW. On the NW arc there is a slight terrace (Wth 1.6-2m) at the base of the enclosing scarp. The interior of the rath is level and featureless.
Dense overgrowth cloaks the perimeter at N and also at SE−S, where the field boundary intersects with the enclosure. There is an old quarry/sand-pit immediately to S of the rath. A souterrain (MA062-059001-) is located at the base of the slope 20m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.