Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drum (costello By., Knock Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drum (costello By., Knock Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79162, -8.90144
- SMR number
- MA092-024----
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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 low rise with a gentle fall of ground to NE, in an area of undulating pasture and patches of bog. There are modern houses immediately to W, NW and E.
A broadly oval platform (35.9m NW-SE; 31.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen scarp (H 1.9m at NE, 1.7m at SW). The interior slopes gently from centre to NE−E. The scarp has a relatively fairly vertical external face for most of the circuit but has a low ramp-like slope (Wth c. 5m) at SSE, which may indicate an original entrance. The rath is moderately ringed with hawthorn bushes, gorse and clumps of brambles; the interior is grassy.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.