Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgarriff (costello By., Aghamore Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarriff (costello By., Aghamore Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79805, -8.86512
- SMR number
- MA092-003----
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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 NW–SE ridge with extensive views to S–NW over a broad sweep of pasture, bog and lakes, to NE over undulating grassland and to N over a valley.
A raised, sub-circular area (25.5m N–S; 31.8m E–W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.6m at W, 3.1m at E; int. H 0.2m at W, 0.4m at E; ext. H 1.1m at W, 1.7m at E), with clear remains at E–SE of a fosse (Wth 2.7m) and an external bank (Wth 2.2m). The fosse can be traced as a slight surface depression in parts around the circuit; the outer bank is evident as a low rise on either side of the entrance gap.
The entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) in the inner bank at ESE is matched with a causeway (Wth c. 2m) across the fosse and a corresponding gap in the outer bank. The rath interior is level and grassy. A semi-circular area (max. dim. c. 10m) has been quarried out of the bank and the NW quadrant of the interior. There is another rath (MA092-004----) 150m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.