Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloontarriff (costello By., Knock Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloontarriff (costello By., Knock Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79413, -8.88293
- SMR number
- MA092-025----
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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 average pasture, located on a low hill, surrounded by pasture and bog. It overlooks a small lake, named Carrownamallaght or Rowans Lough on the OS 6-inch maps, which is 25m to SW. Another small lake, now dried up, is located in lowlying boggy ground c. 300m to E, and Cullentragh Lough is c. 700m to SE.
Sub-circular platform (30.6m NNE–SSW; 34.6m WNW–ESE) defined by a scarp (H 0.9-1.1m) which retains a low internal rim (Wth 1.4m).
The entrance is not clearly defined but may have been at ESE where the enclosing scarp is lowest. The interior is level, with traces of relict cultivation ridges on a NNE–SSW axis. Relict cultivation ridges are also visible in the surrounding field. A farmtrack skirts the rath at NE–E, leading to a derelict farmstead at NW. Grass cover; the rath is relatively compact and well-preserved.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.