Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgarriff West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarriff West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91952, -8.82534
- SMR number
- MA072-034----
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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, located on top of a ridge, with a steep fall of ground to N, overlooking an expanse of poorly drained pasture and bog at N–NE. There is a small pool c. 30m to W and a river c. 200m to W. The rath has been incorporated into the environs of a now ruined, vernacular farmstead.
Raised circular area (33m N–S; 29m E–W) defined NNE–SE by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.75m at NE), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (Wth 1.8m at SW) which retains a slight internal lip in parts. The bank has been modified to serve as a field boundary. This is particularly evident at SW–NE where the scarp presents an almost vertical face with traces of stone facing in parts. Two vernacular stone-built sheds abut the scarp at SE and SSE. Between the two sheds there is gap (Wth c. 3m) in the scarp that may mark an original entrance. There are a number of other low or degraded sections in the scarp, including a break (Wth 1m) at NNW, but these appear to be the result of erosion by stock and farm activity.
The perimeter is ringed with elder, hawthorn, blackthorn, and gorse; the interior covered by long grass.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 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.