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Ringfort - rath

Park (Carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Park, 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
Park (Carra By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.90992, -9.19602
SMR number
MA070-089----

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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 the top of a gentle-sided but commanding ridge. A subcircular area (int. diams. 29m E-W; 26m N-S) is defined by an earthen bank (av. Wth 4m SW-W-NW to 8m NW-E-SW; int. H 0.25-1m; ext. H 1-1.4m). Traces of possible stone facing (H 0.95m) survive on the inner face of the enclosing bank at NW and N. The bank has livestock gaps at NNW (Wth 1.5m) and SSW (Wth 2m) and is reduced to an external scarp (H 1.2m) along the ESE. A rectangular haggard or garden (int. dims. 17m N-S; 5m E-W) enclosed by loose stone walling abuts the rath at ENE. This is partially recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map where it is shown between the monument and a roofed house to the E. Two adjoining corn kilns partially built into the enclosing bank of the rath in the NE sector are also recorded on this OS map but are no longer visible. 

Date of visit: 12-12-2024

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.

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