Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Knockranny (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockranny (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91097, -8.89498
- SMR number
- MA072-057001-
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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 rough pasture, located on a rise with good views over the surrounding stony terrain, which is subdivided into a network of small fields, dotted with field clearance heaps and enclosed by drystone walls. There is a stream 200m to S.
Raised circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a sod-covered stony scarp (H 1.4m at N; 1.6m at S) which is faced and topped by remnants of a wall. At NE the basal courses of the wall remain in place. At W−N the scarp is incorporated into/topped by a later field wall. A portion (L 9m) of the scarp on the SE arc has been quarried out. The interior is level, but has an uneven surface, strewn with stones, with a dense moss- and sod-covered concentration in the centre.
A dense thicket of blackthorn encroaches on the NW arc of the cashel.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.