Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Roskeen South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roskeen South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lismore
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismore
- Coordinates
- 53.89625, -9.66385
- SMR number
- MA067-020001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 steep ENE−WSW ridge, on a peninsula jutting into the N side of Newport Bay. There is a steep fall of ground, reflecting the natural slope of the ridge, immediately to N and S of the rath. The rath overlooks a shallow sea inlet on the N side of the ridge, and over a larger inlet on the S side.
This rath is named ‘Lismore’ on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a raised circular area (26m N−S; 25.5m E−W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.25m; H 0.85m at W), reduced to a scarp (H 2.5m) with a low internal lip at N and S. Stones protrude from the bank and from the S face of the scarp, and oyster and limpet shells are incorporated into the bank in parts. Traces of an external fosse were evident on the W half of the rath during an inspection in the first half of the 20th-century, but were not noted during a 1987 inspection. There is a break in the bank at WSW, but it is unclear if this represents an original entrance. A chapel (MA067-020003-) is indicated in the S half of the interior as 'Chapel (Site of)' on the 1920 OS 6-inch map, but no trace survives at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.