Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brownstown Or Donnageaga, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown Or Donnageaga
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68083, -9.20488
- SMR number
- MA110-024----
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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, on N-facing slope. Oval-shaped raised area (42m N-S; 35m E-W), defined by earthen bank (H 0.4m) NW to SE, reveted with stone in NE.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 112.
Date of upload: 28 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.