Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballindrehid, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballindrehid
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89156, -8.97613
- SMR number
- MA071-145----
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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 top of a ridge with a gentle fall of ground immediately to NW, providing good views SW−NE. At ESE ground level rises slightly towards the summit of the ridge.
Roughly circular area (diam. 23-25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.85m, at E) which has been modified and incorporated into a later system of field walls. The bank is thickly ringed with hawthorn and blackthorn trees and the rath interior is engulfed in an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn. A field wall on a NW−SE axis crosses the interior to SW of centre. There is a possible rath (MA071-144----) 125m to SW and a rath (MA071-146----) 80m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.