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Ringfort - rath

Cartron North, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cartron North, 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
Cartron North
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.81880, -8.77565
SMR number
MA082-032----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 pasture, located on a rise on elevated ground, with good views, somewhat restricted to E by rising ground.
Circular area (46.6m N–S; 45.2m E–W) defined on the W half by a partly levelled earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m, at NW), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (ext. H 0.55 at E, 0.9m at S). The rath straddles the natural rise, incorporating the higher ground in the W of the interior, from where there is a gentle slope down to NE, E and SE. The enclosing scarp is built up higher on the S to compensate for the natural slope. There is a break (Wth 5m) at SE, possibly the original entrance.
Grass cover, with a few hawthorn bushes on the perimeter.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 22 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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