Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballyguin, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyguin
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90134, -9.20741
- SMR number
- MA070-088----
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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 the upper NE end of a broad ridge past which the Clydagh River flows S c. 70m to the E. Reported as a possible ringfort (SMR file). A roughly circular raised area (int. diam. 26m N-S) is defined by a curving scarp (H 0.8m at N – 2.8m at S) N-E-S. A later sunken trackway and earthen field boundary run NW–SE just outside the SW sector. The interior slopes gently to NE and E and appears featureless.
Date of visit: 11-2-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.