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Ringfort - rath

Cloghanlucas North, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloghanlucas 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
Cloghanlucas North
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.77066, -9.19339
SMR number
MA090-063----

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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, with a gently fall of ground to N. When inspected in 1957, this rath, shown on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps as an embanked subcircular enclosure, consisted of a slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1-1.5m, 1.8m at E). Inspected again in the 1990’s, it was found to have been leveled to a featureless, flat area, with slight remnants of a leveled bank discernible at W (Morahan, 1996, 44).

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 7 February 2018

References

Morahan, L. (compiler) 1996 The Archaeological Survey of the parish of Mayo Abbey 1995-1996. Mayo Abbey resource development company.

Nearby in the register

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

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