Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cuilmore (clanmorris By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilmore (clanmorris By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71133, -8.91072
- SMR number
- MA102-033----
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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, in the N corner of a modern field, located in gently rolling terrain. A broad expanse of bog, much of it under forestry, lies c. 200m to N. Views are restricted by the hilly landscape and high field fences.
Slightly raised, circular area (29.6m N–S; 31.6m E–W) defined by a bank and enclosed by an external fosse.
The bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m, at W) has a low internal rim and a well defined external slope, highest (ext. H 0.8m) at E. The fosse is visible as a shallow depression (Wth 3.5-4m), marked by denser vegetation, and is overlain at NW and NE by straight field fences.
The rath interior is level. The entrance may have been at SE where there is a broad slump (Wth c. 4m) in the bank, although there is no clearly defined break in the fosse.
The interior and bank are planted with mature conifers and the interior has a rather soft, wettish and peaty consistency underfoot.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Children's burial ground1 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.