Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathslevin, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathslevin
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87732, -9.02778
- SMR number
- MA071-154----
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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
In pasture, utilising a rise, with a steep fall of ground falls to NNE into a hollow of wet ground.
This rath is shown as an embanked enclosure on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on the 1931 edition. Oval platform (25.5m NW−SE; 21.7m NE−SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m at SW, 4.6m at NE; Wth slope 2.6m at SW, 2.5m at NE) which conforms to the contours of the ridge at N−SE. The interior has a slight rise in the centre, with a slope down from there to S. There is no clearly defined entrance –it may have been on the SE side, which faces the spine of the ridge, but is truncated by a straight field fence on a NE−SW axis. There is a low section of the scarp at W (H 1m) but no clearly defined gap.
There is another rath (MA071-189----) 135m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.