Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cornfield, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornfield
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67782, -9.18042
- SMR number
- MA110-030----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Straddling the SE edge of low rise bordered by wet, rush-grown pasture.
Slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a stony earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 1.2m). The bank retains a low internal lip and a well-defined external scarp.
The interior is engulfed in an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn and brambles, and could not be inspected. The perimeter is ringed with hawthorn and ash trees.
Attached images:
MA110-030----_01.JPG Rath viewed from N
MA110-030----_01.JPG enclosing bank at N
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.