Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloontumper, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloontumper
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74572, -8.83710
- SMR number
- MA102-019----
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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, straddling a prominent rise with a marked fall of ground to S, providing good views NE–SW along a stream valley. The S side of the valley is bordered by the sheltering curve of a sinuous esker that overlooks the rath.
Oval platform (33m NE–SW; 44.5m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with an external fosse. The scarp (ext. H 0.9-1.2m at N, 1.9m at S) retains a low internal rim at W–NE suggestive of a bank with an original width of c. 2.7m. The external slope is greatly enhanced by the natural fall of ground. The fosse is visible at N–NE as a shallow depression (Wth 2-2.5m), marked by a growth of nettles, but is barely discernible elsewhere around the circuit.
In the interior, a gentle slope down from N to S becomes steeper in the S third, mirroring the natural contours of the rise. There is a pronounced slump and a break (Wth 1.4m) in the scarp at ESE which may indicate the original entrance. Faint cultivation ridges traverse the interior on a roughly E−W axis.
Grass cover; perimeter lightly ringed with hawthorn trees. There is a grassed-over quarry pit (diam. c. 7m) immediately to NW of the rath. Another rath (MA102-018----) is located c. 230m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.