Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lisnamaneeagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnamaneeagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85845, -9.00208
- SMR number
- MA080-010----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 on the narrow top of an ENE−WSW ridge, at its ENE end where there are very good views over the surrounding landscape. There is a steep fall of ground to S into a valley of flat, wettish pasture bordered to S by another ridge on which another rath (MA080-031----) is located. At N ground falls away to an area of undulating terrain. There is a farmyard 30m to E.
This rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m); it is not shown on later map editions.
The rath has been levelled, but the faint outline of a slightly raised circular area (diam. 29.5m) defined by a low undulation/levelled scarp can still be discerned. The remains are boxed into a small rectangular field of the modern era: the rath is located at the W end of this field and spans its full N−S width so that straight field walls overlie or truncate the rath perimeter at S, W and N, but the levelled scarp be can be traced as a curving undulation at NNE−SE. At SE a few large stones protrude from the scarp; these may be remnants of a stone facing or kerb. The interior of the rath is level and featureless. A boulder set in the levelled scarp at SSE overhangs a cavity, possibly indicating a souterrain (MA080-010001-).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.