Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derreens (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreens (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74284, -8.79205
- SMR number
- MA103-004----
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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 hilly undulating pasture, with good views over lowlying land to N.
An embanked circular enclosure (diam. 35-40m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, but not on later map editions. At this location there is an elongated rise (c. 18m E−W; c. 40m N−S) which resembles a gently domed hillock. Faint undulations at the base at E and S appear to be remnants of an enclosing scarp. It is crossed on the W side by a field boundary on a roughly N−S axis.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.