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Ringfort - rath

Ballyglass (Clanmorris By., Crossboyne Par.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyglass (Clanmorris By., Crossboyne Par.), 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
Ballyglass (Clanmorris By., Crossboyne Par.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.63441, -8.98226
SMR number
MA119-022----

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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 gently undulating pasture, on a low rise with good views of the surrounding landscape.
Circular area (31m ENE-WNW; 30.8m NNW-SSE) defined by a sod-covered stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m) at N-ENE, reduced elsewhere to a scarp (ext. H 0.8m at SW; 1m at NNW) with a slight stony internal lip.
The interior is level, except for a slight drop in ground level in the E part. An E-W field wall/property boundary transects the rath to S of centre, and a perpendicular wall extends S through the SE quadrant. According to local tradition, the rath was used as a children's burial ground (MA119-022002-).
Traces of cultivation ridges on a N-S axis are visible in the N half of the rath. A telegraph pole stands on the bank at N.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 23 June 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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