Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Levallinree, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Levallinree
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92496, -9.21694
- SMR number
- MA070-019----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 just S of the highest point of a N-S ridge overlooking the N end of Levallinree Lough c. 180m to the ESE. An oval-shaped area (int. diams. 23m E-W; 16m N-S) is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.5-4.5m; av. int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m-1.5m) which is flat-topped (Wth 1.7-2m) along ENE and WSW and round-topped elsewhere. A gap (Wth 3m) at E marks the entrance and there is a later livestock gap (Wth 4.5m) at SSW. A deep (D 2.5m) roughly circular hollow (diam. 15m) lies outside the monument at NNE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Date of upload: 31-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.