Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brackloon South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78443, -8.70591
- SMR number
- MA093-036----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on an elevation, with good views, especially to NE–SW over a broad expanse of bog.
Raised circular area (31m N–S; 32m E–W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.5m at N, 2m at S; int. H 0.3m at N, 0.1m at S; ext. H 0.95m at N, 0.6m at S). The bank survives mainly as an earthen scarp with a low stony internal rim. The SSW–NW arc is incorporated into a later field fence (Wth 3m; int. H 0.55; ext. H 1.2m), which is markedly substantial.
The interior is level and grassy, with ephemeral evidence of cultivation ridges on a roughly E–W axis. According to local tradition, the rath was known as ‘High castle’, and there is a souterrain (MA093-036001-) in the interior. There is a small old quarry pit immediately to S of the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.