Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bellavary, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellavary
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90692, -9.13662
- SMR number
- MA070-117----
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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 pasture on the upper E-facing slope of a broad ridge. A circular area (int. diam. 38m) is enclosed by an overgrown, broad, flat-topped stony bank (int. H 0.1m at E-0.9m at W; Wth 7m; ext. H 1.6m at S-3.2m at E). An overgrown gap (Wth 4m) at SSE may be an original entrance and there are later livestock gaps at N and WSW. A fosse (Wth at base 1.5–2.5m; D 0.3-0.8m) runs outside the bank. The interior is generally level and featureless with some briar and thorn growth in the S half. A second rath (MA070-116----) lies c. 230m to the W and there is a third rath (MA070-118----) c. 280m to the SSW.
Date of visit: 17-4-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.