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Ringfort - rath

Cloonnagleragh (Carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonnagleragh, 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
Cloonnagleragh (Carra By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.90136, -9.21526
SMR number
MA070-081----

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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 on the mid SE-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge, overlooking the NE-flowing Clydagh River c. 85m to the SE. A partially overgrown, roughly circular area (int. diam. 32m) is enclosed by an inner bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.4-1.6m; Wth 3.2-6.9m; ext. H 1.5-1.9m) with internal stone facing (H 0.4-1.1m) surviving intermittently throughout, and a shallow outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.15m). The enclosing elements are overgrown and poached by livestock. The interior contains an overgrown linear depression (L 15m NE-SW; Wth 1m; D 0.4m) in the S sector, together with three small circular depressions (av. diams. 1.5m; av. D 0.4m) nearby in the SE sector, all of which appear to be modern in origin. 

Date of visit: 11-3-2025

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

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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