Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caher (kilmaine By., Kilmainemore Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caher (kilmaine By., Kilmainemore Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60280, -9.14565
- SMR number
- MA118-075----
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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 undulating pasture. Roughly circular area (31m N-S; 35m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 0.6m) has gaps in NNE, NE (Wth 6.4m) and SE (Wth 1.7m). Fosse (D 0.3m) survives NE to W, with external bank (H 0.3m) SE to SW. Low mounds of earth and stone in interior.
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. 118.
Date of upload: 12 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.