Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pollronahan More, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollronahan More
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87465, -9.00206
- SMR number
- MA071-164----
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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 a low knoll, with very good views W−NW overlooking the Pollagh River, which is c. 60m to W. Ground falls away steeply into the river valley, and more gradually to SW.
Oval area (28-30m E−W; c. 40m N−S) which encompasses a low knoll. A roughly E−W field fence crosses the S half of the rath. To S of the fence, the rath survives as a substantially raised semicircular platform defined by a high steeply-sloping scarp (H 3.1m; Wth slope 4-4.5m). The scarp drops to a flat gap/terrace (Wth c. 3m), probably the remains of a fosse, on the outer edge of which is a narrow earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m).
To N of the field fence, the N two thirds of the rath has been levelled, but the outline can still be traced, conforming to the contours of the knoll. The original entrance may have been at NE−E where the fall of ground is gentler.
The S third is engulfed in dense blackthorn and brambles. There are raths (MA071-165----; MA071-171001) 175m to NW and 265m to SE, respectively, and an enclosure (MA071-162----) is 252m to W on the opposite side of the river.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.