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Ringfort - rath

Cloontubbrid (Carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloontubbrid, 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
Cloontubbrid (Carra By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.90656, -9.22341
SMR number
MA070-075----

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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 a slight natural hollow on a narrow N-S pasture ridge overlooking lower boggy ground to E and W. A completely overgrown oval-shaped area (int. diams. c. 38m N-S; c. 30m E-W) is defined by the remains of an inner and outer earthen bank with an intervening fosse. The inner enclosing bank (int. H 0.5-2m; Wth 6.5-8m; ext. H 2m) is mainly round-topped and is encircled by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m) from NNW-NE-S which has been infilled from S-W-NNW.  The fosse was reused as a trackway from NE-E-S. Outside the fosse, a second enclosing bank (int. H 1-1.8m; Wth 4m; ext. H 1m) survives from N-E-S. Both banks are breached by livestock gaps in the NNE sector and later field boundaries run off the monument at NNW and SSE. 

Date of visit: 19-3-2025

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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