Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountain Common, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountain Common
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80676, -8.81768
- SMR number
- MA092-018----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a NW–SE ridge. The ground shelves away steeply for 160m to SW to the shore of Mannin Lake.
Slightly raised, broadly oval area (31.5m N–S; 35.6m E–W) defined by a partly levelled scarp (H 0.6m), outside which it is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2.2m at SW) with remnants of an external bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m, at SW).
The central platform is relatively level and appears to have been built up on the W half to compensate for the natural fall of ground to NW and SW. The fosse is evident as a shallow depression. The external bank survives at S–NW as a low, dilapidated earth and stone bank; it is levelled at NNW–NE to a slight surface undulation; it is subsumed at ENE–SE into a field fence which preserves the curve of the rath and at SSE–S is levelled to a barely discernible surface rise. Grass cover, with hawthorn bushes around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.