Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Bellavary, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellavary
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90165, -9.14756
- SMR number
- MA070-115----
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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 level improved pasture. Recorded as an enclosure – probably a ringfort – with a later field boundary running across the interior from ENE to SW on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837) and shown on the slightly later OS 25-inch map (1893) defined by a scarp. A circular area (diam. 25m) is defined by an enclosing scarp (H 0.3m at E; H 0.8m at S; H 1.8m at SE) which is traceable from ENE-SE-S) and is faintly visible at N. A later field boundary overlies the perimeter at SW. The W-half of the interior is generally level while the E-half slopes slightly down towards the E. The field boundary recorded crossing the interior on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837) had been removed.
Date of visit: 28-7-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.