Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohola
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89814, -9.06782
- SMR number
- MA071-079001-
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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 wet, rush-grown pasture, located on a rush-grown, damp terrace on a SE-facing slope. It overlooks a valley of wet marsh ground, with a stream c. 100m to E.
Circular platform (estimated diam. 35m E−W) defined by an earthen scarp (H 1.3m at SE, 0.9m at W) and enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2.3m at W).
The scarp is progressively lower and more degraded from NE–E; it is absent or levelled at E–ESE, possibly marking the original entrance. The fosse is best defined at W–NW, where its base is very wet and soggy; it is visible elsewhere only as a slight wet depression, and is truncated at S–SW by a field drain (Wth 0.8m) on a NW–SE axis, with a parallel field bank on its outer edge. The rath is engulfed in a thicket of blackthorn, which impedes examination.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.