Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corbally, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbally
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75821, -8.96237
- SMR number
- MA091-029----
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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 improved pasture, located on gently rising ground. Good views E–SE, restricted by rising ground to NW.
Circular platform (22.2m NE–SW; c. 23m NW–SE) defined S–NE by a scarp (H 1m at NW), outside which it is enclosed SSE–N by a fosse (Wth 3.2m at NW), with an external bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.7m at NW) at SW–N. At SSE–SSW the fosse takes the form of a terrace and its outer edge is incorporated into a field fence on a NE–SW axis.
The SE quadrant of the rath interior and the SE arc of the fosse and external bank have been quarried away. Another quarry pit (8m NE–SW; c. 4m NW-SE; D 1.1m) cuts into the rath interior, just inside the scarp at NW–N.
Grass cover, with hawthorn and gorse on the perimeter, especially at S–SW. A rath (MA092-060001-) is located 200m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.