Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Park (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Park (Costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94975, -8.69160
- SMR number
- MA063-036----
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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)
- 1811 · 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 a stand of deciduous and coniferous trees, with a farmstead immediately to E and pasture to N. There is an E−W road (N 5) immediately to S.
Raised circular area (30m N−S; 28m E−W) defined by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.75-0.85m at N & S, 1.4m at W; ext. H 1.6m at S, 2.3m at N & W). The bank is well preserved for most of the circuit; stones protruding from its inner face in parts, possibly remnants of a stone facing. A section of the bank at NE is partly levelled, and is abutted by a garden shed and a wall. There is a hint of a depression (Wth c. 3m) outside the bank at W, which might be indicative of a fosse, but it cannot be traced elsewhere.
A gap (Wth c. 2m) at SE may be an original entrance, as the rath is lower here relative to exterior ground level. The interior is level, and contains a souterrain (MA063-036001) in the W half.
Trees ring the bank and are thinly scattered through the interior. The interior ground surface is obscured by ferns, ivy, bluebells, pine needles and leaf mould. There is a rath (MA063-036----) 100m to SW, and another rath (MA063-034----) 200m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.