Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Hazelhill, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hazelhill
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75069, -8.78697
- SMR number
- MA103-007----
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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 improved pasture, on the top of a rise. Ground falls to N towards a stream/drain flowing through an expanse of lowlying pasture. Further to N is an esker ridge.
An oval embanked enclosure (c. 25m E-W; c. 20m N−S) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on the 1916 edition. There is no visible trace at ground level. According to local tradition there was a ‘fort’ here. An old sandpit, now partly infilled, impinges on the E side of the rise. This is likely to be the rath that Knox (1911, 211) describes as follows: 'in an angle of the Owencam is an earthen fort like a small rath, 30 yards in diameter, with a scarp of 10 feet on the north side above the marsh.’
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
References
Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.