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Ringfort - cashel

Barnalyra, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Barnalyra, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · 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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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