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Ringfort - rath

Lack West, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lack West, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lack West
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.91843, -9.19289
SMR number
MA070-043----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 on a level terrace just N of the highest point of a drumlin, with excellent views everywhere apart from higher ground to the S. An overgrown subcircular area (int. diams. 35m NNE-SSW; 31m NNW-SSE) is defined by the remains of an inner and an outer earthen bank and an intervening fosse. The broad inner bank (int. H 0.5-1.1m; Wth 5-8m; ext. H 1.3-2.5m) has inner drystone facing surviving at W (H 0.35m) and its outer face is poached by livestock. A gap (Wth 3m) at SE may be the original entrance. The fosse (Wth 1.22.6m; D 0.4m) survives from S-W-NE. The second, outer bank (int. H above base of fosse 0.2m; av. Wth 6.5m; ext. H 0.8m) only survives from SW-NW-NE. The overgrown interior is bisected by a later field wall running NNE–SSW.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 3-11-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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