Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybeg (Costello By.),Tullaghaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (Costello By.),Tullaghaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72743, -8.70584
- SMR number
- MA103-019001-
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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, on a ridge. There are extensive views, except at N−NE where an undulation on the ridge restricts views. It overlooks a N−S esker c. 150m to SW. The boundary between Tullaghaun and Ballybeg townlands crosses the rath on a NNE−SSW axis.
Slightly raised circular area (37m E−W; 36.5m N−S) defined by an earth and stone bank. Large stones protrude from the top of the external slope of the bank. Short sections of the bank at NNE and S are incorporated into later field walls. The townland boundary/wall crosses the interior centrally and a perpendicular field wall extends E from it across the SE quadrant.
A subcircular raised area (diam. 13-14m) straddles the centre and N half of the level interior. It is well defined on the W−N by a scarp (H 0.9m) and elsewhere by a low undulation/rise. In the highest part of the raised area at NW (on the W side of the townland boundary) there is a depression (Wth 1.5-3m; D 0.7m) which curves from SW to NE where it terminates against the townland wall. This may be the remains of a souterrain (MA103-09002-). Another roughly circular shallow depression (5m E−W; 2.6m N−S) abuts the inner edge of the rath bank in the NE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.