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Ringfort - rath

Heathlawn, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Heathlawn, 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
Heathlawn
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.78947, -9.07706
SMR number
MA091-005----

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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 top of a ridge, with a fall of ground to E and S providing excellent views over a broad sweep of rolling grassland. Views are less extensive to NW along the top of the ridge.
Broadly oval area (42.7m E–W; 47m N–S) defined SE–ENE by a scarp (Wth slope 2.7m ; H 1.6m), which retains a low internal lip in parts, and enclosed by an external fosse (Wth c. 3m) which is visible as a shallow depression. There is no clearly defined entrance, but it may have been on the E side where the scarp has been levelled to a broad slump merging with the natural slope. There are also low breaks in the scarp at W (2.7m) and N (Wth c. 3m), which are poorly defined and eroded by cattle.
The interior is level and exhibits very faint traces of cultivation ridges on an WNW–ESE axis.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 7 February 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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