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Ringfort - rath

Bunacrower, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Bunacrower, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Bunacrower
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.61953, -9.13126
SMR number
MA118-045----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, located on a slight rise in gently rolling terrain broken by limestone outcropping.
Subcircular area (36m N−S; c. 36m E−W) defined a broad, low grass-covered stony bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.3-0.4m at N, ext. H 0.8m at S). The bank has a pronounced external slope on the S arc where there is a natural dip in exterior ground level, but it has been levelled to little more than a low undulation on the W arc, and it is truncated at E by old, grassed-over quarry pits (diam. c. 8m; D 0.5m) and SE (diam. c. 8m; D c. 0.8m).
The S half of the interior encompasses a low domed rise from where the ground slopes downwards towards the perimeter. A limestone boulder protrudes from the NE edge. This part of the interior is obscured nettles, long grass and hawthorn trees. There is a rath (MA118-171----) 170m to SE, and a cluster of three raths (MA118-042---- to MA118-044----) is located within 200m to W and NW. A field system (MA118-165----) surrounds the raths.

Attached images:
MA118-045----_01.JPG Viewed from S
MA118-045----_02.JPG Viewed from NE

Revised upload: 26 August 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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