Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72261, -8.72523
- SMR number
- MA103-031----
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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 poor-average, rush-grown pasture, now converted to forestry, with rising ground to S.
Views northwards are good over a broad sweep of lowlying pasture and bog. There is a field drain/stream c. 12m to E.
Slightly raised oval area (34m N−S; 25m E−W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m at S, 1.3m at N), outside which is a fosse evident as a shallow depression (Wth 2.8m). There is a break (Wth 1-1.5m) in the scarp at S, obscured by overgrowth. A causeway (Wth 4m) crosses the fosse at NNE, the E side of which merges with a low scarp, possibly a relict field fence, which extends to N beyond the rath.
A low roughly circular rise (diam. 8-9m) is evident in the NE quadrant of the interior; it has a marked slope on the N side, but in general its perimeter is poorly defined, merging almost seamlessly with surrounding flat interior ground surface.
A field fence on a roughly N−S axis overlies the rath scarp at W.
Grass-covered, with clumps of gorse and few hawthorn trees in the interior and around the perimeter. A rath (MA103-032----) is located 230m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.