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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89985, -9.03419
- SMR number
- MA071-090----
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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 pasture, located on a rise, overlooking a shallow basin of wet ground to S. There is a farmyard c. 40m to SW.
Broadly oval platform (30m N−S; 36m E−W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at NE, 1.5m at S, 2m at SW−W). The scarp is quite substantial, and is incorporated into a field fence at NW−N, where it retains a slightly raised lip on its inner edge. It is lowest on the NE arc. It partly concealed by overgrowth and heaps of field clearance debris.
The interior is fairly level, with an uneven and strewn with stones. A quarry pit (Wth c. 8m E−W; L 18m N-S) extends from the scarp at N towards the centre of the interior to S; it is partly filled with field clearance debris.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.