Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barleyhill, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barleyhill
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90422, -9.05493
- SMR number
- MA071-081----
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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 rolling pasture, located on a low rise, with good views, especially to NW−NE.
This bivallate rath consists of a raised circular area (35.5m E−W; 36.9m N−S) defined by a substantial earthen bank, and enclosed by a fosse with slight remnants of an external bank.
The inner bank (Wth 6.3m at N, 9.8m at S; int. H 1.1m at N, 1.6m at S; ext. H 1.8m at N, 3.3m at S) is best preserved at SSE−W. It has a broad internal slump which gives the rath a slightly dished profile. The fosse is evident as a broad shallow depression (Wth 4.5-5m at N) at W−NE, but is barely discernible elsewhere. The external bank has been levelled but its ephemeral outline can still be traced in parts; it has been truncated at E−SE by an avenue leading N to Barleyhill House.
The interior is level. The entrance may have been at E where there is an irregular gap/slump (Wth c. 2m) in the inner bank.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.