Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooneen (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneen (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90521, -9.03928
- SMR number
- MA071-087----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 rough, wet pasture, located on a low rise, with good views, in gently undulating terrain. Ground rises gently to S.
Slightly raised, circular area (53.5m E−W; 49m N−S) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m, at S) which has been modified to serve as a field fence: the external face is cut quite vertically. The internal rim is very low on the N half so that here the bank is effectively reduced to a scarp (ext. H 1.6m). A farm track (Wth 2.2m), flanked on the outer edge by a field fence (Wth 1m; H 0.6-0.8m), skirts the rath at SSW−NE; it might preserve the outline of a fosse and outer bank but this is very uncertain.
There are narrow eroded gaps (Wth c. 1m) at NE and on the S arc, and a slightly wider gap (Wth 2m) at SE.
There is a sod-covered earth and stone mound (5.4m E−W; 3m N−S; H 0.6m), on which a small thorn bush grows, in the interior, to N of centre.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- 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.