Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughaunnaman, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughaunnaman
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lismoreeva
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismoreeva
- Coordinates
- 53.75368, -8.94457
- SMR number
- MA102-007----
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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 improved pasture, located on a rise, in undulating terrain with good view, most extensive to NE over an expanse of pasture and bog.
This rath is shown on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps as a bivallate enclosure (diam. 25-30m) named ‘Lismoreeva’. It was levelled prior to 1984 (OPW field notes, 1984). The outline of the enclosure can still be discerned as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 40-45m) marked by differential vegetation growth. It encompasses the broad, level top of a prominent natural undulation, and was enhanced by the fall of ground to N. It is overlooked by a rath (MA102-008----) located on rising ground c. 120m to NW, and there is an enclosure (MA102-009----) c. 135m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.