Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullanacorra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullanacorra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91071, -8.97039
- SMR number
- MA071-113----
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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 the top of an E−W ridge, close to the S−SW side where the slope falls steeply, giving extensive views to SSE−SW over a broad sweep of countryside. There are somewhat restricted views to W and ENE along the broad undulating top of the ridge.
A circular embanked enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, crossed roughly centrally by a N−S field fence; by the time of the 1931 edition, only the W half of the rath is shown.
It has been levelled, but ephemeral outline of a very slightly raised roughly circular area (c. 36.4m N–S; c. 43.5m E–W) is still evident. A broadly levelled scarp can be traced on the S arc but is barely discernible on the N arc. A sunken farm road (W 3.6m; (D 1.5m) with vertical stone-faced sides cuts through the centre of the rath.
There is another rath (MA071-114----) 175m to ENE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.