Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Burriscarra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burriscarra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74047, -9.23615
- SMR number
- MA100-042----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on E slope of ridge. Trivallate ringfort (max. dims. 61m N-S; 60m E-W). Site heavily overgrown. Inner bank (H 0.3m) survives intact, enclosed by wide fosse. Middle bank (H 1.5m), levelled NNW to NNE. Outer bank levelled WSW to WNW and NW to NNE. Entrance (Wth 5.20m) with causeway, bisects three banks on SE.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 117.
Date of upload: 24 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.