Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kiltybo, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltybo
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76083, -8.70438
- SMR number
- MA093-058----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rough ground, with a farmyard immediately to W, located on a low natural rise, overlooking an expanse of rolling pasture to NE; views are restricted to S and W by buildings and trees; there is wet boggy ground to SW. A railway track is located a few meters to S.
A circular embanked enclosure is indicated on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. The remains consist of a roughly circular area (diam. c. 27-30m) defined W–NNE by a dilapidated stony rise or scarp; at E–SW the outline can be traced only as a cropmark/concentration of thistles. A post and wire fence, on a NE–SW axis, crosses the E third of the enclosure. There are farm buildings immediately to W and N–NNE. Covered in long grass and weeds, with sycamore and beech growing around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 29 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.