Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Barnalyra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnalyra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91386, -8.84509
- SMR number
- MA072-031001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a low rise. A modern house is located immediately to S, and there is another 15-20m to WSW.
A roughly circular area (33m N–S; 29.4m E–W) defined by a broad, low sod-covered stony rise, probably the remnants of a wall. The stone bank/wall is broadest (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) at E–S where it has been somewhat protected by a later property boundary that skirts the cashel at NE–S. Elsewhere it is irregular and uneven in appearance. There is a low section (Wth 4m) at NE which may indicates an original entrance.
The interior is level and grassy. There is a souterrain (MA072-031002) in the SW quadrant. Immediately outside the cashel to N is a low E–W linear rise. This seems to be the remains of a field fence rather that an outer enclosing wall of the cashel.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.