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
- 53.91287, -9.05136
- SMR number
- MA071-082----
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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 blackthorn, located on a rise in an area of average to wettish pasture, intermixed with wet and boggy hollows. There is gently rising ground to SE, and ground falls away gently to WNW to an area of damp pasture.
Circular platform (diam. 25-30m) defined by a stony scarp (0.9m at SW, 1.5m at NNW, 0.6m at N). The scarp retains a slight stony internal lip at NW, with stone protruding randomly from the external slope and is cut quite vertically; it is thickly ringed with hawthorn. The interior appears to be level, but except for the SE quadrant, is engulfed in impenetrable blackthorn and cannot be examined. A field wall on a WNW−ESE axis crosses the S edge of the rath. Another rath (MA072-083----) is located 200m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.