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Ringfort - unclassified

Corraun (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Corraun, 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
Corraun (Gallen By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.90060, -9.15759
SMR number
MA070-112----

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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 low ridge. Recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 40m) defined by a bank; probably a ringfort. Subsequently recorded as altered on the slightly later OS 25-inch plan (1837) where the monument is shown still as a circular enclosure but by then defined by a scarp from NNW-E-SSE and by a later field boundary curving to follow the line of the original enclosing element from SW-W-NW, but with the S limits of the monument, between SSE and SW, overlain by a later boithrín running WNW-ESE. 

While the later field boundary curving from SW-W-NW has since been levelled, its line is still traceable at ground level, as is a very low scarp curving NNW-E-SSE, indicating the enclosing line of the monument (E-W diam. c. 30m). The generally level interior contains an electricity pole to N of centre.

Date of visit: 23-9-2025

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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