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Ringfort - rath

Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Bohola, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Bohola
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.89715, -9.07642
SMR number
MA071-120----

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David 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 rush-grown, damp pasture, located on a low ridge, with extensive views.
Subcircular area (39.5m N−S; 35.7m E−W) defined by a bank. The bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.25m at N, 0.4m at S; ext. H 1.3m at N, 1.5m at S) has a low internal lip, reduced almost to a scarp in parts, especially on the E arc. The external face is cut to the vertical –probably in the modern era; it is thickly ringed with hawthorn/blackthorn scrub, gorse and brambles. A portion of the bank at SW−W has been truncated to a vertical scarp by a modern road which skirts the rath. A break (Wth 5m) at E may be on the site of an original entrance.
The interior slopes down slightly to E. A field fence, with a field ditch on its N side, crosses the centre of the rath on an E−W axis.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 August 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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