Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonalison, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonalison
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92735, -8.80682
- SMR number
- MA073-001001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a low rise, with good views, in an area of undulating poor-average grassland.
Raised circular area (27.4m N–S; 27.8m E–W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m at NE). The bank is low internally, reduced almost to a scarp but retaining a slight, stony internal rim. A low, gently sloping section (Wth 3.4m) of the bank at E may mark an original entrance. There is a souterrain (MA073-001002-) in the interior.
The interior is planted with conifers, and the perimeter is ringed with a post and wire fence.
A farm track, on a NW–SE axis, lies close to the SW edge of the rath. There is a sand pit a few meters to W of the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.