Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass (Clanmorris By., Crossboyne Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass (Clanmorris By., Crossboyne Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63831, -8.98356
- SMR number
- MA119-021001-
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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, prominently sited on the top of a hillock named ‘Cruckavilla’ on the 1915 OS 6-inch map, with extensive views in all directions.
The remains consist of a raised subcircular area (37.5m E-W; 30.7m N-S) encompassing the summit of the hillock and defined by a scarp which merges with the natural slope of the hillock. The enclosing scarp (H 1.35m) on the SW arc remains relatively well defined. Outside it is a narrow berm or terrace defined by a scarp that peters out at NW. At SE the rath scarp and berm curve outwards to merge with a ramp-like slope, possibly the location of an original entrance.
At NW-E, the rath scarp merges seamlessly with the natural slope of the hillock so that the outline of the rath is no longer sharply defined. The E-S side of the hillock has been quarried out, obliterating the rath scarp.
The rath interior undulates gently, but there is a slightly raised relatively level area in the NW quadrant, within which there is a souterrain (MA119-021002-). Cultivation ridges on a NNW-SSE axis traverse the top and sides of the rath and the hillock.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.