Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamuddagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamuddagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76069, -9.17295
- SMR number
- MA090-089----
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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
In pasture, located on ground, with ridges of higher ground to N, E and W. This rath consists of a slightly raised, roughly circular area (33m NE−SW; 31m NW−SE) defined by a bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m at SSE) of earth and stone. At W and N the bank is set on a low scarp, but no such scarp is evident at E and S. The bank is poorly preserved, with several eroded breaks. There is a broad gap (Wth 12m) at E, with a ramp like slope, which is not original. There is another rath (MA090-088----) 140m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.