Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockroe (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75962, -8.81865
- SMR number
- MA092-087----
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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 the top of a ridge at the break of slope on the SSW side, with good views over undulating terrain. There is an expanse of flat, damp pasture at the base of the slope S–SW.
This possible rath is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; a semicircular hachured area curving SE−NW is shown on the 1917 edition. The remains consist of a slightly raised, roughly circular area (36.4m NNW–SSE) defined SE–N by a scrap (H 2.3m at S, 1.4m at W). The scarp is replaced by later field fences at N–E, but it can be traced as a low undulation E–SE. Past quarrying into the ridge slope at S has truncated a section of the scarp at S–SSW.
The interior is level, grassy and featureless. The scarp is ringed with hawthorn and scrub. There was a vernacular farmstead immediately to NE; a modern farmstead is located immediately to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.