Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Culliagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culliagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88246, -8.70204
- SMR number
- MA073-049----
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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
Located in rolling pasture, with a gradual fall of ground to E–SE towards an expanse of heather-covered bog. There is an area of woodland c. 100m to S.
This rath is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a slightly raised circular area (24m N–S; 26.5m E–W) defined at N–E by a sod-covered stony bank (Wth 3.5-4m, int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.65m), at ESE–S by a scarp (H 1.4m) with a slightly raised internal rim and at S–N by a scarp (H 1.2m) incorporated at W–NW into a linear field wall.
There is a break or slump (Wth 2.5m) in the scarp at E which may be an original entrance. The interior is fairly level; in the W half, there is a slight roughly circular rise (diam. c. 10m) with a slope down to SW towards the rath scarp. The rath interior is grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees around the perimeter. Immediately outside the rath, to W of the field wall, is a sub-circular shallow depression (diam. c. 10m), possibly a quarry pit.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.