Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cuillaun (clanmorris By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuillaun (clanmorris By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68606, -8.89708
- SMR number
- MA112-122----
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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, in lowlying undulating terrain characterised by low drumlin-like rises.
This possible rath is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It was levelled at an unknown date in the past. Ephemeral remains are still visible at ground level, and are visible in aerial imagery.
A low, flat-topped subcircular platform (top: c. 29m N−S; c. 35m E−W) defined by broadly slumped sides (H 1-1.2m at E, 1.5m at S; Wth slope c. 7m at E, 9m at S) that grade down smoothly from the flat top. At the base of the platform, a very shallow depression (Wth 3-4m), most likely a fosse is evident, on the outer edge of which on the SW arc and NE arcs is a barely discernible undulation, probably the levelled remains of an external bank. At W, the fosse crosses the base of a natural rise. At E, a N−S field fence, bordering a road, overlies or truncates the external bank.
Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère
Attached images:
MA112-122----_01.JPG Viewed from N
MA112-122----_02.JPG Viewed from S
MA112-122----_03.JPG Viewed from SE
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.