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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89041, -8.93248
- SMR number
- MA072-072----
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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 rise, with good views; overlooking lowlying damp ground to SW.
Raised oval area (c. 35m NW−SE; c. 25m NE−SW) defined by a scarp. Stone facing is evident on the scarp (H 1.45m) at E. At N−E large boulders and field clearance debris are piled against the external slope of the scarp. The scarp (H 1.1m) on the S−W is cut to the vertical, dropping to a terrace bordered on its outer edge by a field wall (W 0.7m; ext. H 0.8m).
Inspection was difficult: The perimeter is thickly ringed with hazel and hawthorn, and the interior is obscured by an impenetrable tangle of brambles and thorn bushes. Heaps of stones (max. dims. 2-6m) can be glimpsed beneath the overgrowth.
Raths (MA072-068001-; MA072-071----; MA072-073----; MA072-074----) are located 282m to NE; 190m to SW and 275m to SE, 360m to ENE, respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.