Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gorteen Beg, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen Beg
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78866, -8.71600
- SMR number
- MA093-031----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a slight rise bordered to SE–S by an expanse of rough, rush-grown pasture and bog. There are good, but not extensive, views over rolling terrain.
Very slightly raised, circular area (diam. c. 25-30m) defined at NE–S by a bank (W 2.7m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.45m at S) with an external fosse (Wth 2.3m). The bank survives as a dilapidated, overgrowth-covered rise of earth and stone. The fosse is evident as a shallow depression. At S–SW the bank has been incorporated into a later stone-faced field fence, engulfed in hawthorn and brambles, and no trace of the fosse is visible here. At SW–N the enclosing elements have been levelled and the curve of the enclosure can be traced only as a slight undulation. The interior is grassy, level and featureless.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.