Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rockfield (carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfield (carra By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89020, -9.22837
- SMR number
- MA070-131001-
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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, located at the NNE end of a hillock/drumlin which slopes down to the WNW, NNE and steeply to the ESE.
This rath is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 35m), with a souterrain marked as ‘Cave’ in the NE quadrant; it is not shown on later map editions. The enclosing bank was partly levelled in the past. The remains consist of a roughly circular raised area (34m NNE-SSW) defined by a broadly sloping scarp (H 1.5m at N; 2m at W) which is entirely levelled for a short section at S. A souterrain (MA070-131002-) is located in a copse of hazel and hawthorn in the SE quadrant. (Pers. comm. Richard Crumlish).
Attached images are provided courtesy of Richard Crumlish:
MA070-131001-_01.JPG Rath viewed from NNE
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.