Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cordarragh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cordarragh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84377, -9.00076
- SMR number
- MA080-029----
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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 in pasture, encompassing a natural rise. A laneway, flanked by stone walls, skirts the perimeter at NW–NE. There is a modern house and garden immediately to SW.
Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. 25-30m), and on the 1919 edition as a roughly D-shaped enclosure with a N−S field boundary forming the straight side at E.
A grass-covered subcircular raised area (c. 35m overall diameter) with a domed profile, which appears to be the remains of a partly levelled rath. The centre (diam. c. 10m) of the rise is level but the ground falls from there in a broad slope levelling out again gradually towards the perimeter. The most pronounced or domed part of the overall rise has a diameter of c. 25m.
It has been boxed in by later field walls with the laneway bordering the NW–NE side, a field wall on a NW–SE axis clipping the E side, and the remains of another field wall/scarp (H 1m) skirting the perimeter S–NW.
Cutting across the perimeter at E there is a an irregular-shaped pit (5m E–W; 5m N–S; D 0.6-0.8m) from which a trench (L 7.5m; Wth 0.8-2m; D 0.5m) extends to W through the rising slope of the enclosure; this appears to be a quarry pit.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.