Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lurgan (costello By., Bekan Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgan (costello By., Bekan Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71871, -8.85176
- SMR number
- MA102-037----
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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 gently elevated ground. There are farm buildings immediately to S and NW, linked by a farm lane which skirts the W half of the rath.
Slightly raised circular area (46m N–S; 46.5m E–W) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m), with remnants of an external fosse (Wth 3.5m) and a possible outer bank/counterscarp (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) at N–NE.
The enclosing scarp is low and degraded, and is slightly truncating by the farm lane at NW. There is a gap (Wth 4m) at S. The fosse is evident as a shallow depression, and the possible outer bank is reduced to a poorly preserved arc/slight rise. A field fence on a N–S axis truncates the fosse and outer bank at the E, and an E–W field fences merges with the scarp at S. A vernacular stone-built shed and derelict cottage lie immediately to SW. A slatted shed stands to NNW, separated from the rath by the farm lane.
The rath interior is level and now serves as a field. The W half is ringed with hawthorn, alder and ash trees.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.