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Ringfort - rath

Bellavary, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Bellavary, 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
Bellavary
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.90706, -9.14078
SMR number
MA070-116----

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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 W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. Recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area defined by an enclosing bank from NW-N-E-SE but with a farm lane (Wth c. 4m) running on the line of the enclosing bank from SE-W-NW. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 28m) is enclosed by an overgrown inner bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.1-0.5m; Wth 7-8m; ext. H 1.3-2.4m) which has been reduced to a scarp (H 1.3-2.6m) along the E and W, and an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m) which is only visible from S-WSW but whose line can be followed as a berm (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.3m) a short distance farther between WSW and WNW. The interior contains three large and almost contiguous subcircular hollows (max. diams. 7m; max D 1m) in the W sector, partially cutting into the line of the enclosing scarp, and there is a fourth, overgrown rectangular hollow (L 9m NE-SW; Wth 6m) in the N sector. A second rath (MA070-117----) lies c. 230m to the E and there is a third rath (MA070-118----) c. 350m to the SE.

Date of visit: 9-5-2025

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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