Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloontubbrid (carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.