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Ringfort - rath

Lowpark, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lowpark, 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
Lowpark
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.96313, -8.80280
SMR number
MA063-003----

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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, on the W edge of Charlestown, located on a prominent rise, with a steeply sloping sides at NNW−E, overlooking a flat expanse of damp pasture.
Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure, and on the 1920 OS 6-inch map as subcircular hachured enclosure (diam. c. 30m), with an arc of external fosse at N, truncated on the E side by a N−S field boundary, and another field boundary traverses the W part of the interior on a NW−SE axis.
This possible rath has been levelled. The outline of the enclosure can still be traced at NW−S at ground level as an area of rough ground and differential vegetation growth, defined by the natural fall of ground. A NW/SE field fence/property boundary cuts across the SW edge. To SW of this fence, the original enclosing bank (Wth c. 3.5m; int.H 0.1m; ext. H 1m) survives as a scarp, with a slightly raised internal rim, which can be traced in a shallow arc S−W; it is covered in gorse, brambles and ferns.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 6 July 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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