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Ringfort - rath

Strade, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Strade, 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
Strade
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Coolkehan
Latest-edition OS map
Coolkehan
Coordinates
53.90692, -9.12915
SMR number
MA070-119001-

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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 just off the E summit of a low ridge. Recorded as a circular enclosure and labelled ‘Coolkehan’ on the first (1837) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. An almost circular area (int. diams. 34m N–S; 32m E–W) is enclosed by an overgrown round-topped earthen bank (int. H 0.1m at E to 1m at N; Wth 4m at S to 8m elsewhere; ext. H 1.7m–2.2m) and a flat-bottomed outer fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 1.5m at N to 2m at E). A gap (Wth 3m) in the enclosing bank at WSW may be an original entrance. The partly rush-covered interior slopes down slightly towards the E and a later field boundary shown running WNW-ESE across the S interior on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map has been removed. This map also records a ‘Cave’ (a possible souterrain – MA070-119002-) in the SW sector of the interior. A ringfort (MA070-120----) lies c. 185m to the NE.

Date of visit: 13-5-2025

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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