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
- 53.88854, -8.92881
- SMR number
- MA072-073----
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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. There is a stream 130m to NE.
Slightly raised oval area (c. 28m E−W; 36m NNE−SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 1.1m at NW, 1.6m at SE). The bank on the E arc has a broad external slope and a low stony internal rim. On the W arc it has been modified to serve as a field fence and here its external face is cut the vertical and faced with stones.
There is a gap (Wth 1.8m) at SSE, flanked by two boulders, possibly an original entrance.
The interior slopes down gently from centre to E and SE. The W half is obscured by blackthorn scrub. The perimeter is densely ringed with hawthorn, blackthorn and ash trees. There is a rath (MA072-072----) 275m to NW.
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.