Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greenwood, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenwood
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77330, -8.84369
- SMR number
- MA092-112----
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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 rough pasture, located on a terrace on a NE-facing slope. At the base of the slope is a natural depression of wet ground.
Slightly raised circular area (37.4m NW–SE; 34.6m NE–SW) defined by a partly levelled scarp (H 0.6m at SE, NW; 0.3m at W), which is best preserved on the NE half. A slight depression (Wth c. 2m), wet in parts, immediately outside the scarp hints at a possible encircling fosse. A property fence, on a NW–SE axis, crosses the enclosure to SW of centre. A shallow linear depression (Wth 3.8m, 2m at base), deepest at its NE end extending from the field fence through the interior to the scarp at NE. Faint cultivation ridges traverse the enclosure interior a NE-SW axis.
Grass cover, with ferns and brambles spreading in the NE half. There are several old quarry pits dug into the downslope of the ridge to N–NE of the enclosure, the closest being 5m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.