Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liscottle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscottle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91752, -9.00088
- SMR number
- MA071-033----
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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 rise in undulating terrain, with good views to NW along a shallow valley of damp pasture. There is a stream/drain 60m to W and another 140m to N.
Roughly circular platform (22.6m N−S; 23.3m E−W) defined by a scarp (H 0.85m at NW, 0.9m at SE; Wth slope 1.6m at NW, 1.3m SE). There is natural fall of ground outside the scarp at SW−NW. There is no obvious entrance feature –it may have been on the E side where the rath faces level ground. The interior is level and featureless.
A NW−SE field fence clips the scarp at NE−E. The rath perimeter is ringed with hawthorn, hazel and blackthorn bushes, with an outer arc of overgrowth 4m outside the rath at S; the interior is grass-covered, with nettles and brambles. Another rath (MA071-034----) is located 230m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.