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Ringfort - rath

Tavraun, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tavraun, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tavraun
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.87385, -8.78105
SMR number
MA073-024----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the gardens of Tavraun House, located on a slight rise, c. 70m E of the house and farm buildings.
A slightly raised, circular area (34m N–S; c. 35m E–W) defined at NW–S by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.45m) and fosse (Wth 4m), with an external bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.6m) surviving at NW–ESE. The W arc of the enclosure has been levelled to barely discernible undulations. The surviving arcs of bank slump broadly into the fosse. A section of the external bank at N is faced with modern stone walling.
The rath interior is now maintained as a lawn area and the perimeter is thickly covered with ash, hawthorn, rhododendrons and brambles.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 4 June 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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