Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinvilla (carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvilla (carra By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87648, -9.27408
- SMR number
- MA069-010----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, situated on a SSW-facing drumlin ridge, with good views of the surrounding terrain, except where blocked by rising ground at NNW-NE.
This rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, with an E-W field boundary extending through its centre; on later map editions it is shown as a D-shaped area bordered on the straight side at S by an E-W field fence. It is evident as a circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed on the N half by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 4.9m; int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.6m, at N), outside which is a fosse (Wth 4.25m; ext. D 1m) with a low counterscarp bank (Wth 4.9m; ext. H 0.3m). The S half of the rath has been levelled, but the outline of the circuit can still be traced as slight undulation. An E-W field fence divides the upstanding half of the rath from the levelled half. A farm track on a NNE-SSE axis extends through the centre of the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 29 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.