Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Treanfohanaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanfohanaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89266, -9.00230
- SMR number
- MA071-137----
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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, on top of a NW−SE ridge, close to the break of slope on the SW side, where the ground falls away steeply into a broad flat, wet valley; there are excellent views along the valley. Ground falls way more gently to NE, where the views are somewhat restricted now by trees.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later maps editions. It has been levelled, but the outline of a slightly raised, roughly circular area (c. 31m NW–SE; 27.7m NE–SW) is still visible. The enclosed scarp is levelled to a low undulation around most of the circuit, but a portion at S−SW (H 1.5m) remains quite well defined where it is enhanced by the ridge slope, and a short length (Wth 2.7m; ext. H 1m) on which a hawthorn tree grows is intact at NW. Remnants of a field fence on a NE−SW axis cross the centre of the interior.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 September 2021
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