Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortgarve (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortgarve (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84683, -9.00948
- SMR number
- MA080-027----
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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
In a thicket of blackthorn scrub in rough pasture, on the SW outskirts of Kiltimagh town. Remnants of a vernacular stone cottage lie in the same field c. 20m to NE.
This rath consists of an oval or oblong platform (c. 45m NNW/SSE; c. 30m ENE/WSW) defined by an earthen scarp. The scarp is most substantial at SW−NW (H 1.7m). It is lower and degraded to NE−SE (H 0.8-1m) where it has been modified to form part of a field boundary by being cut to the vertical and faced with drystone walling. A semi-circular area has been quarried out of the scarp at N. A property boundary on a NE−SW axis clips the NW edge of the rath.
The interior is fairly level, except for a slope down to the W and SW in the SW quadrant. A small heap of stones lies at the base of blackthorn bushes in the NE quadrant. The entrance may have been at E or SE where the scarp is lowest. The rath is engulfed in blackthorn scrub and is difficult to examine.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.