Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Faheens, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faheens
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88975, -8.93577
- SMR number
- MA072-071----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a ridge, at the break of slope on the SW side where there is a steep fall of ground, overlooking an expanse of damp ground.
Raised circular area (35.2m N−S; 34m E−W) defined by earthen scarp (Wth slope 2.8m at SE; ext. H 1.4m at NE, 1.8m SE) which retains a slight internal lip in parts. Stones protrude from the scarp intermittently, and at SSW−N the scarp is incorporated into a field fence and externally faced with stone. Heaps of field clearance stones are piled against the exterior of the scarp at SE and S.
The interior has a slight slope down from N−S in the S third.
The rath perimeter is thickly ringed with hazel, hawthorn and blackthorn; long grass and bracken in the interior. A rath (MA072-070----) is located on another ridge 190m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.