Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonlara (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlara (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74414, -8.86812
- SMR number
- MA102-016----
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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, located on elevated ground with good views, particularly extensive to SW over a broad sweep of the surrounding pasture and bog.
Slightly raised, broadly oval area (45.5m E–W; 51m N–S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m at SSW) at NNE–SW, reduced elsewhere to a scarp (H 0.8m at W). A portion of the bank at NE has been modified to serve as a field boundary, and another section at ESE–S has been incorporated on its external face into a later field fence. A break (Wth 10m) at ENE−E may mark an enlargement of an original entrance gap. Another break (Wth 10m) at N now allows tractor access for silage cutting in the rath interior.
The interior is slightly domed, sloping down gently towards the bank from a low central rise. A building, shown adjacent to the NE side of the rath on the 1916 OS 6-inch map, has been removed.
Interior grassy; E half of the perimeter ringed with hawthorn and blackthorn.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.