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Ballygarriff, County Mayo, Ireland

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Townland
Ballygarriff
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.92568, -9.19698
SMR number
MA070-030----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a N-S ridge in improved pasture with a steep slope to the E and a coniferous plantation c. 60m to the W. Recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 20m) and partly indicated on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the map which depicts a later field boundary (since removed) running E-W across the N limits of the site. No visible surface trace survives and the location is indicated by a circular area (diam. c. 20m) of lush grass growth. A ringfort (MA070-032----) stands on the same ridge c. 175m to the S and a second ringfort (MA070-034----) stands c. 100m beyond it again, to the S. 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan 

Date of upload: 31-10-2025

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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