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Ringfort - rath

Aghadiffin, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Aghadiffin, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Aghadiffin
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.86867, -8.71015
SMR number
MA082-002----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In rough pasture, located on a low rise. Views are restricted now by trees and field fences.
This possible rath is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure clipped on the E arc by a field boundary on a NNE–SSW axis, and on the 1916 edition as a semicircular enclosure bordered on the straight E side by a NNE–SSW field boundary.
The remains consist of a roughly semicircular platform (20.8m N–S; 11m E–W to field fence) defined on the curving W side by a low, dilapidated earthen scarp (ext. H c. 0.6m) with a slight stony lip in parts, and bordered on the straight side to E by a NNE–SSW field bank planted with a line of sycamores. There is no trace of the E half of the enclosure to E of the field fence.
There is a low irregular, curving stony rise (Wth c. 1m E–W; L c. 4m; H c. 0.2m) in the interior at W, set 2.5m in from the edge of the scarp; its function is unclear.
Hawthorn, blackthorn and ash trees grow on the perimeter and across the interior, and the interior surface is strewn with loose stone.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 10 December 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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