Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lowpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95596, -8.80280
- SMR number
- MA063-006----
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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 slight rise, in gently undulating terrain. This possible rath has been partly levelled. It consists of a slightly raised circular area (29m NE−SW; 26m NW−SE) defined by low, partly levelled bank. The bank has a low raised internal rim, which slopes seamlessly into the interior, and a broadly slumped exterior scarp (H 0.6m at E, 0.7m at W), producing the effect of a slightly saucer-shaped profile. Outside the bank on the SW arc there is a shallow depression (Wth 3.5-4m), probably a fosse; it is not evident elsewhere around the circuit. There is a poorly defined gap/low area (Wth c. 4m) at SE, which may mark an original entrance.
There are clumps of brambles in the W half of the interior; hawthorn and ash trees on the perimeter. There is a heap of field clearance stones at the E end of the arc of fosse. A low NE-SW field bank abuts the enclosure at NW. A rath (MA063-005----) is located 190m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.