Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91829, -8.98680
- SMR number
- MA071-044----
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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 on the top of a knoll with good view of the surrounding landscape. There is a disused railway line 50m to W.
Raised circular area (24.2m; 26.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.1m, at WSW) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.5m at ENE) on the NE arc. The rath has been incorporated in to a later system of field fences, and the external face of the bank/scarp has been cut to the vertical and faced with stone to serve as a field fence; at WSW−N the top of the bank has a shallow step (Wth 0.6-1m) dropping to the stone-faced external slope. A slight depression (Wth 2.6m) outside the bank at SE−SW may indicate a fosse.
The interior slopes down slightly from centre to E. At E a low section of scarp, with relatively modern stone cladding, may obscure an original entrance facing the more gently sloping side of the knoll.
Grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees around the perimeter. Another rath (MA071-048----) is located 265m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.