Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killedan,Shanaghy (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killedan,Shanaghy (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88021, -9.02038
- SMR number
- MA071-155----
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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 a rise on top of a ridge, with a pronounced fall of ground to S−SW and very good views.
Roughly circular platform (31m NNE−SSW) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m, 1.6m at SSW). The scarp retains a slightly raised internal rim which incorporates occasional large stones. The external face is quite vertical on the W arc and quite dilapidated at N.
A slight depression, with a hint of a rise on its outer edge, immediately outside the scarp on the SE arc may indicate a fosse and levelled outer bank. There is a low area (Wth 2m) in the scarp at NE, which might be an original entrance but is not clearly defined.
The interior is fairly level; it is grassy, with a large heap of overgrowth-covered field clearance debris in the SE quadrant. A field fence/townland boundary on a NNE−SSW axis crosses the rath to W of centre and a perpendicular field fence extends from it across the NW quadrant.
There are raths (MA071-156----; MA071-157----; MA071-158----) 80m to E, 155m to E and 170m to SE, respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.