Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cuilmore (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilmore (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95022, -8.88825
- SMR number
- MA062-065----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on top of a knoll, with very good views in all directions but overlooked c. 30m at SSW by a higher knoll, on top of which there is a possible house site (MA062-066----).
This rath is depicted on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It has been almost entirely destroyed by quarrying, leaving only an arc of raised ground (L c. 22-24m SW–NNE; Wth c. 5m E-W to the quarry edge) on the W edge of the quarry pit. All that remains, therefore, is the SW-NW edge of the rath, including the curving perimeter scarp (ext. H 2m) and a narrow strip (max. Wth 5m) of the interior, from which there is a steep drop of several meters into the quarry pit.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.