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Ringfort - rath

Brackloon East,Brackloon South, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Brackloon East, Brackloon South, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brackloon East,Brackloon South
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.78984, -8.70921
SMR number
MA093-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 in undulating terrain. Ground falls away gently to SE towards and expanse of bog.
Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) crossed to SE of centre by a field boundary/townland boundary on a NW–SE axis; it is not shown on later map editions.
The remains consist of a roughly D-shaped platform (28m NW–SE; 16.6m NE–SW to Td. boundary) defined on the curving side at NW by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m), reduced at N–SSE to a scarp. A dip (Wth 2-3m) in ground level outside the bank at NW may be a fosse. The straight side at SW is defined by the field wall/townland boundary, to S of which no surface trace of the S arc of the enclosure can be seen. At farm track clips the N–NNE edge of the enclosure.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 23 June 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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