Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountaincommon, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountaincommon
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82179, -8.81459
- SMR number
- MA081-037----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On low rise in gently undulating grassland, with good views.
This possible rath is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, but is depicted on the 1919 edition as a hachured circular enclosure (diam. 30-35m) crossed at NW by a field fence on a NE-SW axis. It has been levelled. The NE−SW field fence is extant. An irregular area of rough ground (c. 30-40m across) is evident to S of the fence; no trace of the enclosure can be discerned to N of the fence.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.