Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grallagh (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90750, -9.11635
- SMR number
- MA070-124----
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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 a W-facing slope. A subcircular area (int. diams. 38m E-W; 34m N-S) is enclosed by an inner earthen bank (int. H 0.2-0.6m; Wth 4m at E to 6m at NNE; ext. H 1.4m) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m at E to 4.5m at S; D 0.3m at E to 0.7m at S). The inner bank and fosse have been dug away (D 0.8m) between NW and NNE, as shown on the OS 25-inch plan (1893). Traces of a second, outer bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.5m; Wth 4m; ext. H 0.7m) survive between SW and W. The interior slopes noticeably down towards the W and contains four large boulders in the W sector. Immediately outside the monument at WSW is a rectangular depression (L c. 16m NNW-SSE; Wth c. 3-4m), the result of relatively modern ground disturbance. A second ringfort (MA070-125----) stands just 16m to the E.
Date of visit:13-05-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.