Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ranagissaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ranagissaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88569, -8.66514
- SMR number
- MA073-032----
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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 pasture, located on a NW–SE ridge, at the break of slope on the NNE-facing side, with excellent views N–SE over lowlying grassland. There is rising ground at S–SW.
Broadly oval area (24m N–S; c. 27m E–W) defined by a low bank (Wth 2.2.2m; int. H 0.2m at W; ext. H 0.5m at W, 0.8m at ENE) at SE−NE, truncated at E–SE by a later field fence on a NNE–SSW axis. At N the external slope of the bank is enhance by the natural fall of ground, and there are traces of external stone facing. On the S arc the bank is reduced to a scarp and is overlain by a field fence on a roughly E-W axis.
The interior has slight drop in ground level in the NE quadrant. The surface is uneven.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.