Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Gortnaraha, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaraha
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77045, -9.02742
- SMR number
- MA091-015----
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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, on a gentle WSW-facing slope on the E side of a broad stream valley of poorly drained ground.
A small circular enclosure is marked on an estate map drawn up in 1811 for Sir Robert Lynch-Blosse (NLI Ms. 2713). It is not recorded on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps.
The extant remains consist of a subrectangular earthen platform (16.6m NW–SE; 9m NE–SW) defined by a scarp (Wth slope 1.4m at NE, 1.4m at SW; H 0.65m at NE, 1.2m at SW). The scarp is rather slumped, particularly on the SW side and the W end of the NW side. When inspected in 1998, the SE side was incorporated into the line of a straight field fence that has since been removed. The top of the platform slopes down slightly to W. At the E corner there is a shallow depression (diam. c. 3m) abutting the field fence.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.