Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killoveeny, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoveeny
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheennafreaghoge
- Coordinates
- 53.77635, -8.87100
- SMR number
- MA092-046----
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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 at the summit of a NW–SE ridge, with excellent views in all directions, especially extensive to S–SW, and overlooking Clooturnaun Lough c. 400m to NW.
This rath, named ‘Lisheennafreaghoge’ on the 1838 and 1917 OS 6-inch maps, was levelled during land reclamation. The slightly raised outline of a circular area (24.6m E–W; 21.7m N–S) can still be traced at ground level, defined by a broad sloping undulation representing a levelled bank/scarp. The scarp survives best at W−NW where a single hawthorn bush grows. Surface undulations at SW and N provide ephemeral evidence of a possible fosse and outer bank. The entrance appears most likely to have been at E, where the enclosing undulation is lowest.
Other raths (MA092-045----; MA092-047----; MA092-051) are located 150m to SW, 300m to NNE and 280m to ENE, respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 March 2022
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.