Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tonroe (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonroe (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90971, -8.98244
- SMR number
- MA071-110----
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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
Located on a low rise in an area of undulating terrain, with extensive views to NW across an expanse of lowlying pasture. A small stream valley is located 270m to S.
Roughly circular platform (37.8m N−S; 42.6m E−W) defined by a bank/scarp. The bank/scarp is modified to serve as a field fence for much of the circuit: at NE−S it consists of an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.9m; ext. 1.7m, at E), at S−W a scarp (Wth 1m) topped with a post and wire fence, and at W−N the scarp has been cut to the vertical (H 2.2m at NNW, 1m at N).
The interior is flat, grassy and featureless; the perimeter is ringed with hawthorn and ash trees. The garden of a modern house lies a few meters N of the rath.
There is a rath (MA071-111----) 220m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.