Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gorteen (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92423, -9.08866
- SMR number
- MA071-004----
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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, located on a ridge, with a gradual fall of ground towards a stream 150m to SW. This rath remains well defined on the W half but has been levelled on the E half.
Slightly raised circular area (42.4m N−S; c. 42 E−W) defined on the W half by a scarp (H 2.5m; Wth slope 3.7m at W), levelled on the E half to a slight rise/undulation, and enclosed by a fosse and external bank.
The scarp has been modified to serve as a field boundary on the W arc. The fosse (Wth 4m) and external bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.8m) are well defined at SSW−NW; the fosse can be traced at NW−N as a shallow depression and the outer bank as an ephemeral undulation. A road truncates the fosse and outer bank at NE−E. A remnant of the outer bank is also evident as a slight undulation at SE.
Interior ground level rises slightly in the NW quadrant. According to local information, there is a souterrain (MA071-004001-) in the interior. The rath is ringed with hawthorn. There are raths (MA071-002----; MA071-003----) 200m to NNE and 190m to NE, respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.