Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathduff (Clanmorris By., Balla Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathduff (Clanmorris By., Balla Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79287, -9.10215
- SMR number
- MA091-004----
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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
Large, slightly raised subcircular area (83m N–S; 94.7m E–W) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m at E, 1.25m at W; H 0.5m at N), which retains a hint of an internal rim in parts. At SE–S where it has been incorporated into a later field fence, the scarp is topped by a dilapidated bank of earth and stone, and a small water tank is set into the bank. Immediately outside the scarp on the SW arc there is a very shallow depression (Wth c. 4m) bordered on its external edge by a slight rise; these features may be the remains of a fosse and external bank.
The location of the original entrance is unclear. There are several narrow breaks in the scarp, eroded by farm stock, and at NE there is a low section (Wth 3.5m) which allows tractor access to the interior.
The interior is level and exhibits very faint traces of cultivation ridges on a NE–SW axis. In the NW quadrant immediately adjacent to the scarp, there is a low square platform (c. 9m NNW–SSE; 9.6m ENE–WSW; H 0.4m) with a slightly raised rim on the N and S sides.
Grass cover; post and wire fence on E−W axis immediately to S of rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.