Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tavraun, County Mayo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.