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
- 53.91225, -9.04803
- SMR number
- MA071-083----
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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 pasture, located on a rise, utilising the slope at N−E. There are very good views in all directions over lowlying undulating wet-average grassland, with an expanse of bog to E. There is a derelict vernacular farmstead immediately to NE.
Roughly circular platform (c. 26m N−S; 26m E−W) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m at NNE; 1.2m at S). The scarp remains relatively well preserved, with a steep external slope at N−ESE. It is partly quarried out at SE, and a small drystone shed is built against it at SSE. It is levelled at SSW−NW and partly dug away at NNW.
The interior is fairly level; grass-covered and featureless. The ephemeral outline of a linear feature, possibly the remnant of a field boundary crosses the interior centrally on a roughly E−W axis. The scarp ringed with hawthorn and some blackthorn, with overgrowth encroaching on the E edge of the interior. Another rath (MA072-082----) is located 200m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.