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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63441, -8.98226
- SMR number
- MA119-022----
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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 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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.