Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kinaff, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinaff
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90339, -8.98305
- SMR number
- MA071-109----
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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 rough pasture, located on a NE−SW ridge. There are good views to N where ground falls gradually to a broad shallow stream valley of damp pasture. A ruined vernacular stone-built house and a shed are located immediately to SW of the rath, and a road on an E−W axis skirts the S edge of the rath.
Roughly circular platform (28.5m E−W; 22.5m N−S) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m at N & S; Wth slope 2.8m). The scarp has been modified at NE−E where an old N-S lane skirted the rath, and portions of the scarp have been dug away at S and SW, giving the rath a ragged edge on that side.
The interior slopes from SW down to NE. There is no clearly defined entrance –it may have been at NE where there is a low area in the scarp.
The interior is grassy; the perimeter is ringed with hawthorn trees. There is a rath (MA071-108----) 120m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.