Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barroe (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barroe (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96601, -8.71610
- SMR number
- MA063-014----
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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 a rise, with a stream/drain at the base of the S-facing slope c. 30m to S.
It is not indicated on 1838 OS 6-inch map, but is shown as a hachured circular enclosure on 1920 edition. Circular area (26.4m N–S; 26-28m E–W) enclosed by a low rise/scarp (ext. H 0.6m at SW, 1.4m at NW), which is incorporated into a roughly E–W field wall at N. The interior has been extensively quarried out to a depth of c. 2m below the perimeter. A large heap of stones is piled in the NW quadrant.
Ash and sycamore trees grow throughout the interior, and the perimeter is ringed with hawthorn. To N of the field boundary which overlies the bank there is a large sunken area which suggests that the natural rise was quarried out here too.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.