Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Deerpark (carra By., Touaghty Par.) (part of), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (carra By., Touaghty Par.) (part of)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73360, -9.17865
- SMR number
- MA100-067----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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, turlough to S and ridge to W. Oval-shaped area (72m N-S; 48m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 1.1m), levelled SE to S, and outer bank (H 0.5m) levelled N to S. Little remains of the interior, which has been heavily quarried. Stone field boundary bisects N of interior.
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. 155.
Date of upload: 1 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.