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Ringfort - rath

Cuilmore (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cuilmore, 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
Cuilmore (Gallen By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.95495, -8.87741
SMR number
MA062-069----

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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 a low rise, with good views. Ground falls away steeply to the NE into a small stream valley.
This possible rath is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure; the 1919 edition shows only the W half of the enclosure, depicted as a semi-circular, hachured area (diam. c. 30m N−S), bisected on its S edge by an E−W field boundary. The E−W field fence is extant; immediately to S it, a shallow E–W arc (L c. 20m) of bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) survives, representing the S arc of the enclosure. It is largely obscured by gorse and brambles. To N of the fence, the enclosure has been levelled, and the location is now occupied by a farmyard.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 1 December 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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