Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanvally (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanvally (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87567, -8.98561
- SMR number
- MA071-175----
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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, located on a rise. Views are good, over undulating terrain, with an expanse of wet land to NE.
Raised circular area (34.2m N–S; 34.4m E–W) defined by intermittent remnants of a bank (Wth 3 at NW, 3.7m at SE; int. H 0.4m at NW, 0.55m at SE; ext. H 1.7m at NW, 1.8 at SE) at N, NE, SE and SW, reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The bank/scarp has been modified at S–N to serve as a field boundary, and is faced with stone in parts. At WNW a section (L 10m) of the scarp is quarried out. There is a slight depression, marked by a dense growth of nettles, outside the bank N–NE, possibly indicating a fosse.
There is a break (Wth 2.5m) in the bank at NNE and a slumped gap (Wth 1.4m) at E, which may be an original entrance, and several narrow breaks have been eroded by cattle.
An opening to souterrain (MA071-175001-) is evident slightly N of centre in the interior.
The rath is ringed with hawthorn, hazel and blackthorn trees; the interior is level and grassy.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.