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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87924, -8.97097
- SMR number
- MA071-179----
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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
Utilises a rise in an area of undulating average and boggy pasture. Ground rises gently to S−SW and falls gently for c. 120m to the banks of the Trimoge River.
This rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval embanked enclosure (diam. 35m E−W; c. 30m N−S); on the 25-inch plan it is shown tightly enclosed within a subrectangular field plot, with a trackway leading off it to N, and by the time of the 1931 OS 6-inch edition, the subrectangular field plot is shown but not the rath.
The subrectangular walled field plot is extant, and slight remains of the levelled rath (c. 39m W−E; c. 28m N−S) can still be seen within the enclosed space. A low semicircular undulation curving N−SW preserves the E half of the rath perimeter. The W arc of the rath appears to be subsumed into an earth and stone field fence (Wth 1.2m; H 0.8-1m) which defines the W side of the field plot. There is a slight slope down from centre to S in the interior. Another rath (MA071-180----) is located 180m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.