Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cave, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cave
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77947, -8.76145
- SMR number
- MA093-097001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 at the N end of a low, roughly N–S ridge, utilising the natural fall of ground to N and W. Good views over rolling pasture, with expanses of bog to E–SE.
Not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Slightly raised oval area (48.5m N–S; 56.5m E–W) defined SSW–NNE by a levelled bank surviving as a low scarp (Wth slope 2m at W, 4.5m at N; H 0.7m at W, 1.6m at N); it is best preserved on the NW arc where it is cut into the natural slope. Elsewhere the scarp can be traced only as a slight rise/undulation. A short section (L 8m) of the scarp at N has been dug away.
The level, grassy interior is crossed roughly centrally, on an ENE–WSW axis, by remnants of a field bank, now topped with a post and wire fence. A field wall on a NW–SE axis overlies the E edge of the rath. According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (MA093-097002-) in the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.