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Ringfort - rath

Grallagh (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Grallagh, 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
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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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 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

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

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