Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fauleens (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fauleens (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95173, -8.71908
- SMR number
- MA063-030----
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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 poor-average, undulating pasture, located on a rise, with a sharp fall of ground to W-NW.
A circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later editions. This possible rath is evident as a slightly raised circular area (diam. 30m) defined ESE-S by a partly levelled scarp (H 1m), which is reduced to a low undulation elsewhere. The interior is level and grass-covered. The entrance was most likely to the E, where the natural slope is gentle. When inspected in 1996, two straight field walls truncated the scarp at W and S, and there were two sod-covered heaps of stone, most likely field clearance, on the scarp at the SE; these have since been removed.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.