Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisbaun West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisbaun West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77799, -8.85754
- SMR number
- MA092-052----
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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 hill, known locally as ‘Mickey’s Hill’, with the steepest fall of ground to NE. Curragh Lough is 180m to NW.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. The enclosure, most likely a rath, has been levelled. The outline of a roughly circular area (diam. 20-24m) can still be traced at NE–SE where a levelled scarp merges with the natural hill slope and at SSE–SW where the shallow curve of a scarp is incorporated into a field fence. At the W a discrete sod-covered mound (L 2m; Wth 1.7m; H 0.8-1m) may be a remnant of the original enclosing bank; according to local tradition, this feature is said to mark the location of a burial (MA092-052001-).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 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.