Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killedan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killedan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87288, -9.01774
- SMR number
- MA071-159----
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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 prominent NE−SW rise, utilising the fall of ground to N−NE and S. There are excellent views to N−E. It is overlooked by a ridge at SW. Ground falls into a lowlying hollow of damp ground to N. The Pollagh River is 360m to SE.
Raised subcircular area (29.8m NE−SW; 27.8m NW−SE) defined by a scarp (H 1.6m at S, 1.1m at NE, 1.8m at W). A low slump (Wth c. 4m) in the scarp at E, which faces gently sloping ground, may be the site of an original entrance.
The interior has a slightly raised, NE−SW spine in the NW half, with a slight slope down to SSW and a more pronounced slope down to NNE. Grass cover, with a thicket of gorse on the SW edge. A field fence, shown on the 1931 OS 6-inch map, which clipped the SE side of the rath has been removed.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.