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
- 53.90753, -9.11556
- SMR number
- MA070-125----
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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 roughly circular area (int. diams. 36m N–S; 4m E–W) is enclosed by an inner bank of earth and stone (int. H 1m; Wth 4m at N to 7m at WNW; ext. H 1.4m) with narrow livestock gaps at N, S and W. The remains of a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m) and a second, outer bank (int. H over base of fosse 0.8m; Wth 7m; ext. H 0.8m) only survive between ESE and S, with the bank poached by livestock along the SE. A later field boundary runs N-S immediately to the E and may incorporate part of the outer bank. The interior slopes slightly towards the SE. There is a dug-out area (L 8m E-W; Wth 7m; D 0.6m) abutting the inner face of the inner bank in the NW sector. A second rath (MA070-124----) stands 16m to the W.
Date of visit: 13-05-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.