Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Murneen South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murneen South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76803, -8.98401
- SMR number
- MA091-026001-
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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, straddling a rise, with good views.
Roughly D-shaped platform (25.8m NNW–SSE; 21.3m E–W) defined by a scarp (H 0.85m at S; 1.4m at N) which retains a slight internal rim in parts. The rath is truncated on the E side, where it now has a linear edge extending NW−SE. The N half of the interior has a slight slope down to N. Slightly NE of centre is a small, low sod-covered, circular mound (2.4m N–S; 2m E–W; H 0.2m) of unknown function. There is no clearly defined entrance –it may have been on the damaged E side.
A relict field boundary (MA091-026002-) was noted in an aerial photograph (GSI M 99 –100; Roll 213, pr. 24) to NE of the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.