Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Heathlawn, County Mayo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.