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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91660, -8.98303
- SMR number
- MA071-048----
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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 a thicket of overgrowth in the NE corner of a pasture field, located at a fold in the NW slope of a ridge, with good views to W; rising ground restricts views E−S.
Raised circular area (c. 31m N−S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m at NE, 5.2m at SW; int. H 0.6m at NE,1.45m at SW; ext. H 1.4m at NE, 2.3m at SW).
The bank, composed of sandy silty soil, is noticeably higher and more substantial on the S half. It is topped in parts with a thin scatter of stones There is a slight depression (Wth c. 2.6m) outside the bank at SW, which may indicated a fosse, however, it is unclear to what extent it is just an effect create by naturally rising ground which backs the rath here. A field fence skirts the rath on the E side, with an intervening gap of 5m. The rath interior is engulfed in a thicket of blackthorn and the perimeter is thickly ringed with hawthorn and hazel trees.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 July 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.