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Ringfort - rath

Barnalyra, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, 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
Hachured
Coordinates
53.92209, -8.83119
SMR number
MA072-032----

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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 rough pasture, straddling a rise, with good views, especially to E, over the surrounding undulating landscape of gravel hills. There is a stream 100m to E and a small lake in a hollow 120m to NW. An extensive commercial quarry is located immediately to SW.
Roughly circular raised area or platform (34m NW−SE; c. 28m NE−SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m at N, 1.4m at S; 2m at NE). A low, slumped section (Wth 2m) of the scarp at E may be an original entrance, opening onto a slope that falls gradually toward the stream.
The NW quadrant appears slightly higher than the rest of the interior, with a slope down from there to E and SE. There is a grassed-over depression (4m N−S; 2.5m E−W; D 0.5m) in the N half of the interior.
The scarp is ringed with hawthorn and brambles, especially dense on the SW arc. Overgrowth is encroaching on the W half of the interior.
A rath (MA072-033001-) is located 220m to NE.

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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